Running the Windows P2P Infrastructure on Mobile Phones

Author

Mueller, Ulrich ; Young, Matt ; Gefflaut, Alain

Author_Institution

Eur. Microsoft Innovation Center, Aachen

fYear

2007

Firstpage

245

Lastpage

246

Abstract

The recent desktop versions of Windows (XP SP2 and Vista) include a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) infrastructure that simplifies the development and deployment of true P2P applications. We have ported the latest version of this infrastructure to Windows Embedded CE 5.0, which is the underlying OS for Windows Mobile 5.0. To our knowledge, this is the first native implementation of a P2P infrastructure for Windows Mobile. This paper provides a short overview of the infrastructure and design considerations when running P2P applications on mobile phones. For demonstration purposes, we have developed a community-based photo sharing and chat application that solely uses the P2P infrastructure for communication. We will demonstrate the ease of creating P2P communities in an ad-hoc manner, and the interoperability between Windows Mobile and Windows Vista.

Keywords

mobile computing; mobile handsets; operating systems (computers); peer-to-peer computing; Windows mobile 5.0; mobile phone; operating system; peer-to-peer infrastructure; Data security; Databases; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Network address translation; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Technological innovation; Tunneling; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2007. P2P 2007. Seventh IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Galway

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2986-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/P2P.2007.11

Filename

4343491