Title: A secure P2P file sharing model using trust management and data integrity verification

Authors: N. Senthil Madasamy; T. Revathi

Addresses: Department of IT, Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology, Virudhunagar 626001, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of IT, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems contain a group of equivalent entities that can act as a client, server and overlay network router. P2P file sharing system has become one of the most important internet applications. In this paper, a secure trustworthy P2P file sharing model with novel trust management and data integrity verification strategies is proposed for securing the file sharing between peers. By exploiting the trust value of all peers, the forwarding peer is chosen for file sharing. With the Media Access Control (MAC) level address of the entire file, the final level validation is performed. Further, the file splitting policy reduces the network overhead for the file transmission. The performance comparison of the existing Self-ORganizing Trust (SORT) model with the suggested model shows that the suggested model is optimal than the existing SORT model.

Keywords: data integrity verification; MAC; media access control; P2P systems; peer-to-peer systems; P2P file sharing; SORT; self-organizing trust; trust management; file sharing security; trustworthiness; file splitting.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2016.078197

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2016 Vol.10 No.4, pp.335 - 344

Received: 21 Sep 2015
Accepted: 23 Feb 2016

Published online: 08 Aug 2016 *

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