4th IEEE International Workshop
on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P'07)
White Plains, NY, USA, March 23, 2007
In conjunction with the 5th IEEE International Conference
on
Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’07)
Objectives of the Workshop
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing is a networking and distributed computing paradigm which allows the sharing of computing resources and services by direct, symmetric interaction between computers. With the advance in mobile wireless communication technology and the increasing number of mobile users, P2P computing, in both academic research and industrial development, has recently begun to extend its scope to address problems relevant to mobile devices and wireless networks. The special characteristics of mobile environments, such as highly variable connectivity, disconnection, location-dependency, energy and resource sensitivity, and the diversity in wireless networks as well as carrier-grade performance requirements bring new challenges for research in mobile P2P computing.
MP2P’07 is intended to serve as a continuing forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of mobile P2P computing. It will address the challenges, technologies, and architectures leading to real-world solutions that provide users with direct access and control of their critical peer-based information and services, regardless of location or device.
The principal theme of MP2P’07 is the development of protocols, systems and applicatiosn of mobile P2P architectures and the evaluation of their performance.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- Architecture and platforms for mobile P2P computing
- Measurement studies on mobile P2P systems
- Performance of mobile P2P services
- Resource and service discovery in mobile P2P computing
- Resource exchange mechanisms in mobile P2P application
- Mobile P2P over different kinds of bearer services: 2.5/3G (GPRS/UMTS) / 802.11 (WLAN)
- Mobile P2P & operator/provider requirements
- Reliability and carrier-gradeness of mobile P2P services
- Mobile P2P & fixed P2P system interworking
- Issues of combining P2P services with mobility (mobile IP / MANET)
- Peer access and control in mobile environment
- Location dependent mobile P2P services
- Data exchange and rendering techniques for mobile devices
- Secure communication protocols for mobile P2P computing
- Mobile P2P messaging systems
- Peer-to-peer broadband wireless communications
- Applications of mobile P2P
- Middleware for mobile P2P
- Nature-inspired algorithms for mobile P2P computing
- Theoretical issues on mobile information diffusion
- Mobile P2P video games
- Stimulating cooperation in mobile computing
- Multicast Protocols in mobile networks
- Energy saving P2P protocols for mobile devices
- Mobile P2P in wireless sensor networks
