Proposal of searching and sharing information framework on Mobile P2P

Abstract

Searching and sharing information is vital for distributed application, regardless of location, time and computation environment at the moment and future. Information is needed when making decisions - the more and better information you have, the better will the decision be. In the wired Internet, peer-to-peer communication has had a great impact how information is shared. Now, when the world constantly is becoming more and more mobile there is a need to apply the same functionalities in this domain as well. Wired network technologies are based on assumptions like that the nodes have a fixed place and thus non-mobile. By comparison, mobile technologies get a dynamic network. In addition to the mobility limitation, the mobile devices have much less resources than the nodes in a fixed network, so this also will introduce problems to be solved. This thesis we describe the design and implementation of the peer-to-peer infrastructure supporting mobile phone for searching and sharing information, including architectures, topology and protocols for information exchange.