Experiences Developing Mobile P2P Applications with LightPeers

Author(s):  
B.G. Christensen
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Author(s):  
Kurt Tutschku ◽  
Andreas Berl ◽  
Tobias Hossfeld ◽  
Hermann de Meer

The telecommunication industry has recently seen two areas with very high growth rates: cellular networks, for example, GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) or UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), and P2P (Peer-to-Peer) file-sharing applications. A combination of both might be highly attractive: a) for attracting new users; and b) for exploiting the potential of cellular broadband technologies. From a system’s perspective, architectures and performance figures of cellular mobile network applications and services that have edge-based intelligence (e.g,. P2P applications) are, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, less researched and many questions remain open. This chapter presents the design of MP2P (Mobile P2P) applications for cellular mobile networks by using the example of a MP2P content-distribution application. First, the incompatibilities between the P2P paradigm and properties of cellular mobile networks are identified. Then, a design methodology for MP2P applications for cellular mobile networks is proposed. The proposed method is based on a functional analysis of the two basic P2P functions, resource mediation and resource access control. The result is a hybrid P2P content-distribution architecture, which is enhanced by different operator-controlled infrastructure elements. The suggested architecture does not only overcome incompatibilities between P2P and cellular mobile communication systems, it also meets the functional needs and performance requirements of future P2P applications in cellular environments, while still largely preserves the user characteristics and efficiency of P2P systems. Finally, the performance enhancements by the architecture for the two basic P2P functions are investigated by comprehensive simulative and analytical performance evaluations.


Author(s):  
Spyridon L. Tompros

Enabled by the emergence of high-speed Internet access in last mile communications, P2P systems have witnessed significant growth in the recent years, mainly due to their intrinsic characteristic of being independent of the underlying network and the different services that operators offer in various subscription models. The advent of the Next Generation Networks (NGN) technology is expected to further strengthen the growth of P2P services as it will allow their deployment in any network and with any terminal type. In this chapter, the author first gives an overview of the NGN technology, and then presents its first real implementation called the IP Multimedia Sub-system (IMS), with a discussion of the issues on integrating and interworking P2P applications in converged communications networks.


Author(s):  
Mengqiu Wang ◽  
Heiko Wolf ◽  
Martin Purvis ◽  
Maryam Purvis

Author(s):  
Nguyen Chan Hung ◽  
Tobias Hoßfeld ◽  
Giang Ngo Hoang ◽  
Vu Thanh Vinh ◽  
Nguyen Manh Thang

The recent trends of decentralizing enterprise applications toward the new peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture and the fast growth of wireless communication lead to a new tendency of combining these technologies to inherit their great advantages of mobility, reliability, flexibility and scalability. However, this technological integration raises a large number of new challenges and issues to be addressed. This paper focuses on the challenges of the development of enterprise mobile applications and services based on P2P architecture. Using selected results from related projects, we present and analyze these important issues and also propose an exemplary solution to address some of these issues.


2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Guo-Yin ZHANG ◽  
Jun LI

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 2603-2605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shi-ping CHEN ◽  
Jia-bing WANG ◽  
Hui-qi QIU

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-115
Author(s):  
Prem Nath ◽  

P2P (peer-to-peer) overlays have attracted many researchers due to increase in Internet based P2P applications. A P2P overlay is a distributed system in which the independent nodes participate at their will to share resources in distributed manner. P2P overlays are designed for wired based communication systems but today P2P applications are becoming popular in wireless networks even in multi-hop wireless networks. Routing mechanism in P2P overlays is based on IP infrastructure and many protocols are deployed successfully for efficient and fair P2P applications. However, there are many challenges in designing and deployment of efficient and fair protocols for the P2P overlays. These overlays suffer from many challenges such as dynamic overlay management, lack of robust trust model, counterfeit content distribution, free riding, poor resource search scalability, security, etc. The churn rate of nodes (join and leave of nodes) in the P2P overlay makes overlay management and resource searching more challenging. The free riding nature of the nodes in a P2P overlay is undesirable and it creates unfairness in the P2P overlay. There are several mechanisms proposed such as Eigen Trust model, tit-for-tat policy, point-based incentive policy, Page Rank policy, layered taxation, advertisement of incentive, etc. for encouraging fairness in the P2P overlays. I have presented in-depth survey over free riding behaviour, its effect, and existing mechanisms to reduce free riding in structured P2P overlays.


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