A management service for P2P content over MANets

A mobile ad hoc network (MANet) is a flexible way to interconnect mobile devices. Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are serverless self-organized infrastructures that enable end-to-end communications. The P2P churn and the instabilities of MANETs interconnections bring important challenges to P2P over MANETs(PoM). A consumer peer in PoM wastes several of its scarce resources managing the communication with the peer that provides content. Our proposal aims at reducing the consumer peer control over the communication so that to avoid unnecessary consumption of its resources. A virtual content provider is used for this purpose and a prototype was implemented in order to show the feasibility of the proposal.