A standalone content sharing application for spontaneous communities of mobile handhelds

This demo illustrates the benefits of BitHoc, a standalone protocol for content sharing among spontaneous communities of mobile handhelds using wireless multi-hop connections. BitHoc is a Trackerless BitTorrent-like application adapted to mobile wireless ad-hoc networks(MANET). The current BitHoc architecture is composed of three principal components: a content sharing service, a membership management service and a content discovery service. The present demo highlights the efficiency of the BitHoc package in dealing with diverse challenges encountered in theMANET environment. Our solution considers the following issues: routing overhead, sharing opportunities and mobility of nodes. In order to validate the feasibility of our application and evaluate its performance, we consider a test-bed composed of PDAs and smartphones equipped withWIFI adapters and Windows Mobile 6 operating system.