Data Synchronization of Mobile Peer-to-Peer Application: Experiments on the Android Platform

Abstract

Traditional resource synchronization processes exchange files between PCs and enterprise mainframes. In recent years, smart devices have increased employee mobility, allowing them to carry out work in a ubiquitous environment. Resource synchronization has thus become an important focus of investigation, particularly in terms of which network transmission protocol is most suitable for use by smart devices. A peer to peer network is a type of decentralized and distributed network architecture. Individual peers in the network act as both suppliers and consumers of resources. In a ubiquitous environment, a reasonable solution for file resource synchronization is to construct a mobile peer to peer network (MP2P) based on a distributed peer to peer architecture that provides a secure platform. This study explores network transmission protocols, including Juxtapose (JXTA), Session Initiation Protocol, Bluetooth, and WiFi Direct, in order to construct a MP2P network of Android-based smart devices for data synchronization. The experiment demonstrates that the JXTA protocol provides more functionality for Android-based smart devices. The contribution of this study is to demonstrate that JXTA implementation strengthens an enterprise mobility and synchronizes data using mobile device from any location.