Spontaneous Collaboration in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks

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Andreas Heinemann, Max Mühlhäuser

Published: 01 Jan 2005, Last Modified: 03 Mar 2025Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications 2005EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: The field of mobile Peer-to-Peer networks (MP2P) has various forms and currently there exists no coherent view on what is understood by it. The term mobile emphasizes that nodes/peers in the network are mobile, and therefore need to be equipped with some kind of wireless communication technology. Examples of nodes include pedestrians with mobile devices [284] or vehicles with wireless communication capabilities [632]. Since all mobile Peer-to-Peer networks construct an overlay over an existing wireless network, implementations range from MP2P over mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) [156] to MP2P over cellular based networks [299, 298].