Mobile object location discovery in unpredictable environments

Glassey, R. and Stevenson, G. and Ferguson, R.I. (2006) Mobile object location discovery in unpredictable environments. In: 3rd International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking, 2006-10-11 - 2006-10-13. (http://www.icmu.org/icmu2006/)

[thumbnail of strathprints003166.pdf]
Preview
 PDF. Filename: strathprints003166.pdf
Download (391kB)| Preview

Abstract

Emerging mobile and ubiquitous computing environments present hard challenges to software engineering. The use of mobile code has been suggested as a natural fit for simplifing software development for these environments. However, the task of discovering mobile code location becomes a problem in unpredictable environments when using existing strategies, designed with fixed and relatively stable networks in mind. This paper introduces AMOS, a mobile code platform augmented with a structured overlay network. We demonstrate how the location discovery strategy of AMOS has better reliability and scalability properties than existing approaches, with minimal communication overhead. Finally, we demonstrate how AMOS can provide autonomous distribution of effort fairly throughout a network using probabilistic methods that requires no global knowledge of host capabilities.

CORE (COnnecting REpositories)