TY - JFULL AU - M. Padmavathi and R. M. Suresh PY - 2015/2/ TI - A Fuzzy Swarm Optimized Approach for Piece Selection in Bit Torrent Like Peer to Peer Network T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 332 EP - 339 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000685 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 97, 2015 N2 - Every machine plays roles of client and server simultaneously in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. Though a P2P network has many advantages over traditional client-server models regarding efficiency and fault-tolerance, it also faces additional security threats. Users/IT administrators should be aware of risks from malicious code propagation, downloaded content legality, and P2P software’s vulnerabilities. Security and preventative measures are a must to protect networks from potential sensitive information leakage and security breaches. Bit Torrent is a popular and scalable P2P file distribution mechanism which successfully distributes large files quickly and efficiently without problems for origin server. Bit Torrent achieved excellent upload utilization according to measurement studies, but it also raised many questions as regards utilization in settings, than those measuring, fairness, and Bit Torrent’s mechanisms choice. This work proposed a block selection technique using Fuzzy ACO with optimal rules selected using ACO. ER -