First International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'01)
When Peer-to-Peer comes Face-to-Face: Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Computing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Lingk?ping, Sweden
August 27-August 29
ISBN: 0-7695-1503-7
This paper motivates and describes the notion of mobile ad hoc information systems. Such a system consists of a decentralized and self-organizing network of autonomous, mobile devices that interact as peers. Connectivity is determined by distance between devices; as hosts change their physical location they establish pair-wise communication links based on mutual proximity. We describe application scenarios for mobile ad hoc information systems and identify technical challenges of a generic software infrastructure. Moreover, we present the goals and architecture of Proem, a peer-to-peer system and development platform for mobile ad hoc applications. Proem has successfully been used as instructional tool in an advanced software engineering course on peer-to-peer computing.
Index Terms:
peer-to-peer computing, decentralized architecture, mobile computing, mobile groupware, face-to-face collaboration, ad hoc collaboration, ad hoc applications, mobile ad hoc networks, personal area networks
Citation:
Gerd Kortuem, Jay Schneider, Dustin Preuitt, Thaddeus G. C. Thompson, Stephen Fickas, Zary Segall, "When Peer-to-Peer comes Face-to-Face: Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Computing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks," p2p, pp.0075, First International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'01), 2001