A standalone content sharing application for spontaneous communities of mobile handhelds

This demo illustrates the benefits of BitHoc, a standalone protocol for content sharing among spontaneous communities of mobile handhelds using wireless multi-hop connections. BitHoc is a Trackerless BitTorrent-like application adapted to mobile wireless ad-hoc networks(MANET). The current BitHoc architecture is composed of three principal components: a content sharing service, a membership management service and a content discovery service. The present demo highlights the efficiency of the BitHoc package in dealing with diverse challenges encountered in the MANET environment. Our solution considers the following issues: routing overhead, sharing opportunities and mobility of nodes. In order to validate the feasibility of our application and evaluate its performance, we consider a test-bed composed of PDAs and smartphones equipped with WIFI adapters and Windows Mobile 6 operating system. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4 [Information Systems Applications]: Miscellaneous; D.2.10 ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: SIGCOMM
• Authors: Amir Krifa, Mohamed Karim Sbai, Chadi Barakat, Thierry Turletti
• Keywords: Communications, Content Sharing, Content Sharing Service, SIGCOMM 2009, Wireless Multi-hop Connections