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Mobile hosts participating in peer-to-peer data networks: challenges and solutions

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Peer-to-peer (P2P) data networks dominate Internet traffic, accounting for over 60% of the overall traffic in a recent study. In this work, we study the problems that arise when mobile hosts participate in P2P networks. We primarily focus on the performance issues as experienced by the mobile host, but also study the impact on other fixed peers. Using BitTorrent as a key example, we identify several unique problems that arise due to the design aspects of P2P networks being incompatible with typical characteristics of wireless and mobile environments. Using the insights gained through our study, we present a wireless P2P client application that is backward compatible with existing fixed-peer client applications, but when used on mobile hosts can provide significant performance improvements.

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  1. Note that though we could perform experiments by relying on the “ture” shared-media of the WiFi networks, experimenting under more-controlled environments help filter out other irrelevant factors such as interferences from other WiFi networks.

  2. We assume here that mobile IP [14] is not used to handle mobility.

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We thank all anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant CNS-0519733.

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Zhenyun Zhuang, Sandeep Kakumanu & Raghupathy Sivakumar

  2. SungKongHoe University, Seoul, Korea

    Yeonsik Jeong

  3. Asankya Inc, Atlanta, USA

    Aravind Velayutham

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Zhuang, Z., Kakumanu, S., Jeong, Y. et al. Mobile hosts participating in peer-to-peer data networks: challenges and solutions. Wireless Netw 16, 2313–2333 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-010-0260-4

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