Programming ad-hoc networks of mobile and resource-constrained devices

Ad-hoc networks of mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs represent a new and exciting distributed system architecture. Building distributed applications on such an architecture poses new design challenges in programming models, languages, compilers, and runtime systems. This paper discusses SpatialViews, a high-level language designed for programming mobile devices connected through a wireless ad-hoc network. SpatialViews allows specification of virtual networks with nodes providing desired services and residing in interesting spaces. These nodes are discovered dynamically with user-specified time constraints and quality of result (QoR). The programming model supports “best-effort” semantics, i.e., different executions of the same program may result in “correct” answers of different quality. It is the responsibility of the compiler and runtime system to produce a high-quality answer for the particular network and resource conditions encountered during program executio...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: PLDI
• Authors: Yang Ni, Ulrich Kremer, Adrian Stere, Liviu Iftode
• Keywords: Ad-Hoc Networks, Compiler Generated Code, Mobile Devices, PLDI 2005, Programming Languages