Content Sharing for Mobile Devices

TL;DR

This paper introduces the Market Contact Protocol (MCP), a decentralized peer-to-peer system designed for scalable, cost-effective content sharing among mobile devices using opportunistic networking and social context.

Contribution

The paper presents MCP, a novel decentralized protocol for mobile content sharing, and evaluates its effectiveness through simulation in highly mobile environments.

Findings

MCP enables efficient content sharing in mobile ad-hoc networks.

Simulation results show MCP's scalability and effectiveness.

MCP reduces reliance on centralized systems for content distribution.

Abstract

The miniaturisation of computing devices has seen computing devices become increasingly pervasive in society. With this increased pervasiveness, the technologies of small computing devices have also improved. Mobile devices are now capable of capturing various forms of multimedia and able to communicate wirelessly using increasing numbers of communication techniques. The owners and creators of local content are motivated to share this content in ever increasing volume; the conclusion has been that social networks sites are seeing a revolution in the sharing of information between communities of people. As load on centralised systems increases, we present a novel decentralised peer-to-peer approach dubbed the Market Contact Protocol (MCP) to achieve cost effective, scalable and efficient content sharing using opportunistic networking (pocket switched networking), incentive, context-awareness, social contact and mobile devices. Within the report we describe how the MCP is simulated with a superimposed geographic framework on top of the JiST (Java in Simulation Time) framework to evaluate and measure its capability to share content between massively mobile peers. The MCP is shown in conclusion to be a powerful means by which to share content in a massively mobile ad-hoc environment.