P2P file sharing system over MANET based on swarm intelligence: A cross-layer design

The dynamic nature of MANET causes many challenges in designing robust and scalable P2P system. Although flooding-based techniques are shown to be robust in highly dynamic network, it leads to poor efficiency in terms of bandwidth usage and scalability. In this paper, we propose an efficient and scalable P2P file sharing system based on Swarm Intelligence for MANET, referred to as P2PSI. By applying the behavior of the real ant colonies, P2PSI owns the capability of adaptive learning and is able to cope with mobility problem without flooding. Moreover, we also present a cross-layer architecture for P2PSI to reduce the redundant message overhead and query latency. Performance of our cross-layer design P2PSI is compared with two existing cross-layer design service discovery protocols, namely, CL_dsr and CL_dsr through simulations. The simulation results show that our cross-layer design P2PSI achieves better performance in terms of control overhead, request success ratio, and path length.