Constructing a peer-to-peer framework

Based on the studies of the file sharing protocols and related projects a more efficient protocol is presented. In addition to the protocol proposal a design of a peer-to-peer framework is outlined. The framework should be general enough to work with most existing services, but also be easy to use and extend.

The framework is then implemented and, if there is enough time, a suitable protocol plug-in is implemented for testing purposes. Suitable choices would be the efficient protocol presented earlier and a Gnutella plug-in. The Gnutella plug-in would make it a lot easier to verify how well the framework actually works in an environment of thousands of peers.