A Comparative Study of Different File Sharing Applications and Wi-Fi Direct Technology for File Sharing


EOI: 10.11242/viva-tech.01.04.037

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Ms.Khyati Bariar, Mr.Saurabhkumar Maurya, Mr. Rohit Yadav, Prof.Umesh Mohite, "A Comparative Study of Different File Sharing Applications and Wi-Fi Direct Technology for File Sharing", VIVA-IJRI Volume 1, Issue 4, Article 37, pp. 1-8, 2021. Published by Computer Engineering Department, VIVA Institute of Technology, Virar, India.

Abstract

The government of India recently banned Chinese application because of security implication of Indian users data and also with another collaborative aim to lead India to digitalization and self-reliance 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' made the decision to ban the Chinese application from Indian Google Play store. In this list of apps ShareIT and Xender which had become a part of regular activities of many people, used for File transferring purpose. This application was meant for sharing different formats of files among devices. Despite other alternative Indian file sharing applications users faced inconveniences as these application were less satisfactory in comparison with banned apps like the ban of ShareIT and Xender. This paper shows studies of various Indian and non-Indian file/data Transferring applications and a comparative study of the various features provided by them. This paper also focuses on the study of WIFI Direct technology which is used for file sharing, connecting among devices.

Keywords

File sharing technology, peer to peer, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Alliances, Wi-Fi Direct.

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