Active Coordination in Ad Hoc Networks

The increasing ubiquity of mobile devices has led to an explosion in the development of applications tailored to the particular needs of individual users. As the research community gains experience in the development of these applications, the need for middleware to simplify such software development is rapidly expanding. Vastly different needs of these various applications, however, have led to the emergence of many different middleware models, each of which approaches the dissemination of contextual information in a distinct way. The EgoSpaces model consists of logically mobile agents that operate over physically mobile hosts. EgoSpaces addresses the specific needs of individual agents, allowing them to define what data is to be included in their operating context by means of declarative specifications constraining properties of the data items, the agents that own the data, the hosts on which those agents are running, and attributes of the ad hoc network. In the resulting coord...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: COORDINATION
• Authors: Christine Julien, Gruia-Catalin Roman
• Keywords: Ad Hoc Network, COORDINATION 2004, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Different Middleware Models, Mobile Agents