P2P Solutions to Efficient Mobile Peer Collaboration in MANETs

P2P systems have shown useful to many types of distributed systems due to their features of efficient direct communication among peers. Although initially motivated by the need for efficient file sharing among large amount of peers, P2P techniques have found wide applicability to many domains within large scale distributed systems such as solving complex problems from science and engineering, data storage, etc. During the last years, P2P techniques have found their applicability to mobile computing, vehicular networking, MANETs, etc. In this paper we survey some P2P solutions to efficient management in MANETs. By using P2P techniques, MANETs can efficiently support collaboration among mobile peers as well as efficient data exchange.