Virtual community-based video resource sharing solution in MANETs

The virtual community has emerged as a state-of-the-art technology, grouping the user with the common interest and providing a feasible solution for large-scale deployment of resource sharing services. Efficient sharing for video resources and low maintenance cost of overlay topology are key factors in MP2P video on demand systems. In this paper, a novel virtual community-based video resource sharing (VCVRS) solution in MANETs is proposed. VCVRS design a virtual community construction strategy to group the nodes with the common playback behavior and a flexible community maintenance mechanism so as to obtain the fast supplier discovery and low maintenance overhead. Simulation results show how VCVRS achieves higher lookup success rate, lower server stress, lower node load and less overlay maintenance overhead, in comparison with another state of the art solution.