MHT: A mobility-aware Distributed Hash Table
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2007-09-01
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Journal
Volume
49
Issue
5
Start Page
298
End Page
303
Citation
Information Technology 49 (5): 298-303 (2007)
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
Publisher
De Gruyter
Mobile ad-hoc networks and distributed hash tables (DHT) 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 balancing and security of MHT. A special focus is put on the differences and new challenges that the use of a DHT in a mobile environment poses..
Subjects
ad-hoc network
computer systems organization
DHT
distributed applications
distributed hash table
mobility
peer-to-peer
DDC Class
005: Computer Programming, Programs, Data and Security