Intern
Lehrstuhl für Informatik III

Siemens Mopi (funded by Siemens AG)

Mobile Peer-to-Peer


Research Project initiated and financed by

MoPi Project Team

Heads Kurt Tutschku,

 

Phuoc Tran-Gia (University of Würzburg),

 

Frank-Uwe Andersen,

Cornelia Kappler (SIEMENS AG),

Hermann deMeer (University of Passau)

Researchers

Tobias Hoßfeld,

Andreas Mäder,

Daniel Schlosser,

Ivan Dedinski,

Jens Oberender


Summary

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing has become the killer application in the Internet with respect to traffic and popularity which is even surpassing web usage. This makes P2P file-sharing commercially attractive to network operators interested in increased traffic. In parallel, the demand for wireless services has caused wireless networks to grow enormously. We assume that P2P file-sharing will be mapped onto mobile environments by its users. This results in a mobile P2P file-sharing service. In this project, we examined the feasibility of the eDonkey file-sharing service in GPRS and UMTS networks and detected problems of the interaction between P2P and infrastructure-based mobile networks. We developed an architecture overcoming the restrictions of today's existing P2P concepts and mobile networks. Additional infrastructure elements have been introduced which are operator friendly and permit the network operators to regulate the service while preserving the user friendly P2P characteristics. The performance capabilities of the architecture were evaluated by extensive analytical and simulative studies.

Software

MopiPhant compact .NET emule client released on 04.04.05 by Daniel Schlosser


Publications

  • Time-Discrete Analysis of the Crawling Strategy in an Optimized Mobile P2P Architecture. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Mäder, Andreas; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe. In EuroNGI Workshop on. Loveno di Menaggio, Como, Italy, 2006.
  • Time-Discrete Analysis of the Crawling Strategy in an Optimized Mobile P2P Architecture. Technical Report (374), . Hoßfeld, Tobias; Mäder, Andreas; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe. University of Wuerzburg, 2005.
  • Comparison of Crawling Strategies for an Optimized Mobile P2P Architecture. Hoßfeld, Tobias. 19th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC19), Beijing, China, 2005, September 2.
  • Comparison of Crawling Strategies for an Optimized Mobile P2P Architecture. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Mäder, Andreas; Tutschku, Kurt; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Andersen, Frank-Uwe; de Meer, Hermann; Dedinski, Ivan. In 19th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC19). Beijing, China, 2005.
  • Comparison of Crawling Strategies for an Optimized Mobile P2P Architecture. Hoßfeld, Tobias. 5th IP Workshop, Würzburg, Germany, 2005, July 18.
  • Simulative Performance Evaluation of a Mobile Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing System. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe; de Meer, Hermann; Oberender, Jens. In Next Generation Internet Networks NGI2005. Rome, Italy, 2005.
  • Comparison of Crawling Strategies for an Optimized Mobile P2P Architecture. Technical Report (356), . Hoßfeld, Tobias; Mäder, Andreas; Tutschku, Kurt; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Andersen, Frank-Uwe; de Meer, Hermann; Dedinski, Ivan. University of Wuerzburg, 2005.
  • Simulative Performance Evaluation of a Mobile Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing System. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe; de Meer, Hermann; Oberender, Jens. 2005, April.
  • Influence of the Size of Swapping Entities in Mobile P2P File-Sharing Networks. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tutschku, Kurt; Schlosser, Daniel. In Peer-to-Peer-Systeme und -Anwendungen. GI/ITG-Workshop in Kooperation mit KiVS 2005, Kaiserslautern, 2005.
  • Mapping of File-Sharing onto Mobile Environments: Enhancement by UMTS. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe. In Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing MP2P, in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’05). Kauai Island, Hawaii, 2005.
  • Mapping of File-Sharing onto Mobile Environments: Feasibility and Performance of eDonkey with GPRS. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe. In WCNC 2005. New Orleans, LA USA, 2005.
  • Enabling Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networking. Oberender, Jens; Andersen, Frank-Uwe; de Meer, Hermann; Dedinski, Ivan; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Kappler, Cornelia; Mäder, Andreas; Tutschku, Kurt. In Mobile and Wireless Systems, LNCS 3427. Dagstuhl, Germany, 2005.
  • Simulative Performance Evaluation of a Mobile Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing System. Technical Report (345), . Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe; de Meer, Hermann; Oberender, Jens. University of Wuerzburg, 2004.
  • Mapping of File-Sharing onto Mobile Environments: Enhancement by UMTS. Technical Report (343), . Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe. University of Wuerzburg, 2004.
  • An Architecture Concept for Mobile P2P File Sharing Services. Technical Report (344), . Hoßfeld, Tobias; Mäder, Andreas; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe; Kappler, Cornelia; de Meer, Hermann; Dedinski, Ivan; Oberender, Jens. University of Wuerzburg, 2004.
  • An Architecture Concept for Mobile P2P File sharing Services - Evaluation and possibilities for Self-Organization. Tutschku, Kurt. Dagstuhl-Seminar 04411: "Service Management and Self-Organization in IP-based Networks", 2004, October 5.
  • An Architecture Concept for Mobile P2P File Sharing Services. Andersen, Frank-Uwe; de Meer, Hermann; Dedinski, Ivan; Kappler, Cornelia; Mäder, Andreas; Oberender, Jens; Tutschku, Kurt. In Workshop at Informatik 2004 - Algorithms and Protocols for Efficient Peer-to-Peer Applications. Ulm, 2004.
  • Mapping of File-Sharing onto Mobile Environments: Feasibility and Performance of eDonkey with GPRS. Technical Report (338), . Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe. University of Wuerzburg, 2004.