MHT: A Mobility-Aware Distributed Hash Table
Abstract
Mobile ad-hoc networks and distributed hash tables share key characteristics in terms of self organization, decentralization, redundancy requirements, and limited infrastructure. However, node mobility and the continually changing physical topology pose a special challenge to scalability and the design of a DHT for mobile ad-hoc networks. In this paper, we show that with some local knowledge we can build a scalable and mobile structured peer-to-peer network, called Mobile Hash Table (MHT). Furthermore, we discuss practical challenges such as Churn, load balacing and security of the Mobile Hash Table. A special focus is put on the differences and new challenges that the use of a DHT in a mobile environment poses.
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Publication
Special Issue on Peer-to-Peer of the it - Information Technology Journal
