A chord-based novel mobile peer-to-peer file sharing protocol

Abstract

With the increasingly developed technology of mobile devices and wireless networks, more and more users share resources by mobile devices via wireless networks. Compared to traditional C/S architecture, P2P network is more appropriate for mobile computing environment. However, all existing P2P protocols have not well considered the characteristics and constraints of mobile devices and wireless networks. In this paper, we will present a novel mobile P2P protocol, M-Chord, by adopting hierarchical structure and registering mechanism on the basis of Chord. The experimental results show that M-Chord system has high-efficiency and good robustness in mobile P2P network. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.