A peer-to-peer approach for mobile file transfer in opportunistic people networks

With wireless technologies extending to every part of our daily lives, mobile networking applications are becoming increasingly popular for accessing the Internet. In this paper, we propose a peer-to-peer approach, called M-FTP, for mobile FTP services. Unlike traditional approaches, the proposed scheme implements a Collaborative Forwarding algorithm that takes advantage of opportunistic wireless connections, thereby improving network capacity by exploiting the diversity of network mobility. Using simulations as well as real-world network scenarios, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme provides a better mobile FTP service than traditional schemes, and thus facilitates more effective data transfer on the go.