PeerLink: A Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Messenger

Abstract

PeerLink is an Android peer-to-peer, decentralized messaging service application which allows two-way text messaging without using intermediate servers. PeerLink permits mobile devices to communicate straight away by creating a peer-to-peer network unlike conventional messaging systems where authenticated routing and storage is undertaken by a central infrastructure to create privacy hazards and single points of failure. Every device act as a client and a message carrier enhancing fault tolerance and eliminating reliance on external services. The system is dedicated to the message delivery with low latency, better user privacy and high reliability of communication in a low or unstable connection environment. To assure safe message communication, end-to-end encryption is employed. It has been experimentally confirmed that PeerLink is capable of providing messages with reasonable latency to permit near real time communication. The findings indicate that the concept of decentralized peer-to-peer has been proven to be effective in developing lightweight and privacy conscious messaging applications that can be useful in a small-scale and infrastructure constrained system.

Country : India

1 Yashraj Pawar2 Satyajeet Chavan3 Ketan Gunjal4 Kalyani Chalke5 Prof. Dipika Pangudwale6 Prof. Nita Pawar

  1. Student, Department of Computer Engineering, Ajeenkya D.Y. Patil School of Engineering Polytechnic, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  2. Student, Department of Computer Engineering, Ajeenkya D.Y. Patil School of Engineering Polytechnic, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  3. Student, Department of Computer Engineering, Ajeenkya D.Y. Patil School of Engineering Polytechnic, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  4. Student, Department of Computer Engineering, Ajeenkya D.Y. Patil School of Engineering Polytechnic, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  5. Guide, Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Ajeenkya D.Y. Patil School of Engineering Polytechnic, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  6. HOD, Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Ajeenkya D.Y. Patil School of Engineering Polytechnic, Pune, Maharashtra, India

IRJIET, Volume 9, Issue 12, December 2025 pp. 105-108

doi.org/10.47001/IRJIET/2025.912015

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