Supporting Mobile Devices in Gnutella File Sharing Network with Mobile Agents

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  • ISCC '03 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications
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  • 2003

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Abstract

The use of peer to peer file sharing networks such asGnutella is proliferating on the Internet, but its use isbandwidth consuming due to the broadcast nature ofsome peer to peer protocols. This is undesirable formobile devices due to their bandwidth and powerconstraints. This paper proposes an architecture that usesmobile agents to participate in the Gnutella network onbehalf of mobile devices in order to reduce the amount oftraffic for the mobile device, as well as providing supportfor device mobility. Using real Gnutella trafficcharacteristics, analysis on the viability of thearchitecture is presented.