Paper Info
Title
PhoneNet: a phone-to-phone network for group communication within an administrative domain
Abstract
This paper proposes PhoneNet, an application framework to support direct group communication among phones without relay nodes. PhoneNet presents the familiar abstraction of a multi-user chat service to application writers. It performs two main functions: inviting participants to the chat room and routing data between participants directly without going through any intermediaries. Made possible by a generic chat room service embedded in the network itself, all application-specific code in PhoneNet applications runs on the phones themselves. Unlike the conventional server-client model, this design does not require scalable central servers that can handle all simultaneous interactions. As a first step, we have created a prototype of PhoneNet that works within an administrative domain. The multicast functionality among phones is implemented on top of a software-defined network (SDN). We have developed two applications using PhoneNet: teleconferencing and photo-sharing. Our experience suggests that it is easy to develop PhoneNet applications and PhoneNet appears to be effective in reducing network traffic.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1851322.1851331
MobiHeld
Keywords
Field
DocType
application writer,application-specific code,multi-user chat service,administrative domain,network traffic,group communication,application framework,phonenet application,generic chat room service,phone-to-phone network,software-defined network,chat room,nox,software defined networks,openflow
Administrative domain,Chat room,Teleconference,Computer science,Communication in small groups,Server,Computer network,Phone,Multicast,Software-defined networking
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.52
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Te-Yuan Huang187357.97
Kok-Kiong Yap286278.51
Ben Dodson3715.91
Monica S. Lam45585705.61
Nick McKeown5132471201.05