Peer-to-peer system for RSS feed dissemination

• Main Author: Sasaka, Sonny Budiman.
• Other Authors: Anwitaman Datta
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information systems applications
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39763
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

RSS is a file format for describing a list of news. It has become more and more widely used nowadays as the world needs a way to get news faster. For a popular RSS feed, a huge number of subscribers downloads that feed from a server periodically. With this current client/server architecture of RSS feed dissemination, this huge number of downloaders makes the server load very heavy and consumes a lot of bandwidth. This project proposes a way of disseminating RSS feeds in peer-to-peermanner, which aims to spread the responsibility of a single server to be distributed among the peer-to-peer network members, thus reducing the server load and bandwidth, while still providing timely updates to the network participants.