GMP2P: Mobile P2P over GSM for Efficient File Sharing

Abstract

Implementing Peer to Peer (P2P) system on a cellular network is an interesting idea to provide distributed storage, that has caught attention of many researchers. Leaving aside the legal issues, overcoming technical challenges are key to the development of cellular based P2P business applications. In this paper, we propose a mobile P2P file sharing system called GMP2P on GSM-GPRS network. GMP2P integrates distributed hash table (DHT) mechanism into GSM mobile stations and base transceiver stations. The proposed solution addresses the issues related to efficient P2P file sharing over GSM-GPRS network without requiring a centralised server. The communication cost involved in searching and downloading of the shared files is also analysed and the results are compared with existing mobile P2P schemes. GMP2P is found to be more efficient and scalable.