Development of an Adaptive File Transfer Protocol (AFTP )

Noori Mazher, Alaa; Hussain Ali, Alyaa; Sami Hassan, Taif

doi:10.30684/etj.29.11.12

	Development of an Adaptive File Transfer Protocol (AFTP )
Engineering and Technology Journal
Article 1, Volume 29, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2234-2243 PDF (250.83 K)
DOI: 10.30684/etj.29.11.12
Authors
Alaa Noori Mazher; Alyaa Hussain Ali; Taif Sami Hassan
Abstract
File is one of the main storing units of information. There is a great need to transfer file through computer network especially the internet. The model that is used in Internet is the TCP-IP. The TCP-IP model consists of four layers. The lowest layer is the host network layer, the second layer is the internet layer (IP handling); while the third layer is transport layer which contains TCP and UDP. The last layer is the application layer. This paper is concerned on the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The UDP is mainly used to transfer messages. It is asynchronous, connectionless and unreliable protocol. The UDP is not suited for transferring files because of the error or loose that could prevent us from reconstruct the original file. In order to overcome this problem new field and configuration is applied in the application layer for guarantee file sending and receiving. This field is the Cyclic Redundant Check (CRC) which is computed for each block of data and all these checks were sent over another port. At the end of receiving data the receiver checks the check matrix in order to determine the error and requesting that block from the sender. The proposed protocol is implemented using the Winsock and Visual Basic programming language
Keywords
AFTP; TCP; CRC; UDP

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