Recently I was going through a question on www.linkedin.com regarding breakthroughs in wireless communication and on further research on it found the topic on co-operative networking quite interesting.

Co-operative Networking in layman terms is concerned with issues of peer-to-peer networking and functionality of client server applications.

I have provided a white paper(A Case for Co-operative Networking) from Microsoft which details the research conducted on Co-operative Networking. The paper lists out the research issues faced and also compares it with alternatives available.