Persistent Bidirectional Peer Traffic in Fix- network augmented Broadband Wireless Access

Currently, the Internet is experiencing the grid accelerated file transfer phenomenon (swarming). It has gained immense popularity and dominance through BitTorrent and has thus far accounted for a substantial amount of the total Internet traffic. In this paper, we borrow ideas liberally from the literature to argue that the use of swarming protocol for traffic/content delivery within the wireless networking milieu is inefficient. We generalize the problem into the delivery of persistent bidirectional peer traffic in wireless hierarchical topology, and further argue that current approaches for fixnetwork augmented broadband wireless access (e.g. 802.11x) has left the problem ill-addressed. A novel system architecture is sketched to rectify such a shortcoming. Hence, the purpose of this short position paper is to stimulate ideas and proposals that may result into important avenues of future research. Keywords— swarming, cross-layer design, wireless communication architecture