A Framework for Context-Aware P2P Service

Currently P2P application is very popular for services such as file sharing, multimedia streaming, etc. With popularity of P2P application, peers participating P2P network have various capabilities and belong to heterogeneous network environments. Especially, explosively growing mobile device market trend makes heterogeneity problem of peer more serious. In order to handle the heterogeneity of peer, P2P system would be better to aware the context of peer participating P2P network. In addition, P2P system is also required to support requirement of various service because the requirement of services are different. For handling above issues, the cooperation among Internet service provider, service provider using P2P technology, and peers is needed. In this paper, we proposed the framework for context-aware P2P service and the current status of its standardization as well.