Distributed Memory Bounded Path Search Algorithms for Pervasive Computing Environments

  • Authors:
  • Anoj Ramasamy Sundar;Colin Keng-Yan Tan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077;Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077

  • Venue:
  • PRICAI '08 Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Trends in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A pervasive computing environment consists typically of a large heterogeneous collection of networked devices which can acquire and reason on context information. Embedded devices are used extensively in pervasive environments but they face some key challenges. Common path searching algorithms like A* Search can have exponential number of node expansions. In this paper, we describe a special variant of this problem called Multiple Objective Path Search (MOPS) and propose a memory bounded solution to implement it in a pervasive environment. Experimental results show that an efficient path with 40-60 times less node expansions can be obtained with the proposed solution.