Multi-level Hashing for Peer-to-Peer System in Wireless Ad Hoc Environment

Abstract

Peer-to-peer is a popular distributed system. With the advancement in mobile technologies, mobile P2P has revealed its attraction. But, the resource constraints such as bandwidth, computing power, energy, etc. and node's mobility give hard challenges to the researchers. Smart content distribution and efficient content discovery are the heart of P2P protocols. Routing is associated with every task but it is expensive in ad hoc environment. In this paper, we address these issues and present a peer-to-peer system for wireless ad-hoc networks using multi-level hashing to reduce routing overhead. The necessity of multilevel hashing is justified through extensive simulation