行動點對點網路（Mobile Peer-to-Peer network，簡稱MP2P）是由一些移動節點(mobile node)所組合而成，它們只能與一步鄰居溝通。每個節點可能會產生資料（report），並可能存在某些節點對資料感興趣，並希望可以取得資料，但對產生資料的節點而言，並非每個對資料感興趣的節點都在自己的溝通範圍之內，故節點之間需要倚賴儲存並轉發（store-and-forward）方式來一步步達到多步資料傳遞的目的。本論文的目標在解決儲存空間、頻寬、電力資源限制的MP2P環境中，如何可以在較短的時間內，讓更多資料傳到有興趣的節點。我們提出一個評分的機制，來引導每個節點在完全分散式的系統下，可以選擇對的資料來儲存並轉發。我們透過模擬程式來進行方法驗證，並發現我們的模擬結果和另一個行動點對點資料散播演算法RANDI相比，我們的評分機制不僅達到有效率的資料傳遞，更可以有效地減少資源的花費。

A mobile Peer-to-Peer (MP2P) network is a network which composes of a set of mobile nodes in which communication is restricted to one-hop neighbors. In such a network, some nodes may produce reports (or information/data) that are of interest to some other nodes. However, nodes who are interested in those reports may not be in the communication range of a report producer, and thus cannot receive the reports immediately. Data dissemination deals with delivering a report to mobile nodes that have expressed their interest in the report through intermediate nodes by way of relaying. Typically, a relay node exchanges and stores the report when it encounters another node that has a copy of the report, and later forwards the report to the interested nodes. Since most mobile nodes have limited storage, bandwidth and energy, we need to take it into consideration the resource constraints when designing data dissemination scheme for a MP2P network. The main objective of this thesis is to present a data dissemination protocol that improves the performance of system while enjoying low communication overhead. Basically, our scheme is based on a ranking mechanism that helps guide each node to choose a set of reports for exchange in an efficient manner. We also build a simulator to evaluate our protocol. Comparing with the existing methods, our protocol can not only provide effective data dissemination but also reduce the traffic cost efficiently.

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