distributed_searching

A simple overlay network written using Java to search for files and download them

To build the jar file run the following command

mvn clean install

after building the code you can run a single node using the distributed_search.jar in the target folder

bootsrap server should be running before starting nodes, to run the bootstrap server goto the BS folder and double click start.bat file

now go to target folder

run the following command (replace the parameters with real values)

java -jar distributed_search.jar <bootsratp_server_ip> <bootstrap_server_port> <node_ip> <node_send_port> <node_receive_port> <node_name>

if you are running bootstrap server on your local machine add 127.0.0.1 as the IP of bootstrap server and 55555 as the port of the bootstrap server

You can give any arbitary values for the node IP and node Port

a node will be start to run

Following commands can be issued to the node

search <file name> - will start a search query on given file name (no inverted commas needed)

download <file_name> <server_node_ip> <server_node_receive_port>

neighbours - will show the routing table

leave - will unregister from bootstrap server and leave the network

start.bat file has provided to make the process easier, clicking the start.bat will start the bootsrap and run 10 nodes automatically

( you should build the code before running start.bat )