Paper 2: A mobile peer-to-peer system for opportunistic content-centric networking

Title: A mobile peer-to-peer system for opportunistic content-centric networking
Author: Ólafur R. Helgason, Emre A. Yavuz, Sylvia T. Kouyoumdjieva, Ljubica Pajevic, and Gunnar Karlsson
Link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1851322.1851330

In their paper, the authors discussed their middleware solution for connecting multiple devices together on a peer to peer network. They focused on the Android platform, and coded their system in Java. While the devices all connected wirelessly together, they required a wifi base station.

Their research focused on the battery power drawn via their system, and the logic behind how to determine which phone should function as the base node. The developers concluded that Bluetooth would make a much better implementation, though the limited bandwidth would pose a challenge. The researchers plan to look into cacheing technology in order to improve their system.