Dynamic dominant index set for mobile peer-to-peer networks

Efficient locating mechanism is the key issue of establishing peer-to-peer (P2P) resource sharing for mobile Ad Hoc networks (MANET). In this paper, a simple concept of Dynamic Dominant Indexing Set (DDIS) is proposed. By periodically advertising information of shared resources on the backbone of current network topology in a distributed fashion, DDIS gains great improvement on user response time, fault tolerance and scalability. Simulations indicate that DDIS simplifies the searching process and greatly reduces the response delay and thus, it is more appropriate for mobile peer-to-peer source sharing especially in emergent situations.