Performance of REsource LOcation and Discovery (RELOAD) on Mobile Phones

REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD) is a peer-to-peer signaling protocol that can be used to maintain an overlay network, and to store data in and retrieve data from the overlay. RELOAD is currently being standardized in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The main application using RELOAD is Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation Protocol (P2PSIP). In this paper, we study the performance of RELOAD on a mobile phone participating in a P2PSIP overlay. We focus on memory consumption, CPU load, battery consumption, and bandwidth usage. The goal is to find out whether mobile phones can act as full peers in a P2PSIP overlay.