Title: On designing peer-to-peer systems over wireless networks

Authors: Lu Yan, Xinrong Zhou

Addresses: University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK. ' Zhongxing Telecom (ZTE Corporation), Shenzhen, China

Abstract: With the advance in wireless communication technology and the increasing number of mobile users, peer-to-peer computing, in both academic research and industrial development, has recently begun to extend its scope to address problems related to mobile devices and wireless networks. This paper is a performance study of peer-to-peer systems over wireless networks. We show that the crosslayer approach performs better than separating the overlay from the access networks with a comparison of different settings for the peer-to-peer overlay and underlaying wireless ad hoc network. We then present a performance model towards in-depth understanding of those systems. Our results provide useful guidelines for mobile operators, value-added service providers and application developers to design and dimension peer-to-peer systems over wireless networks.

Keywords: peer-to-peer; P2P; wireless networks; ad hoc networks; overlay; crosslayer; performance models.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2008.018910

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2008 Vol.3 No.4, pp.245 - 254

Published online: 22 Jun 2008 *

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