Object-oriented coordination in mobile ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Tom Van Cutsem;Jessie Dedecker;Wolfgang De Meuter

  • Affiliations:
  • Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium;Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium;Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • COORDINATION'07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Coordination models and languages
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We introduce an object-oriented referencing abstraction to express coordination between objects hosted on mobile devices interconnected by a wireless ad hoc network. On the one hand, we notice that the most popular communication paradigms for mobile ad hoc networks, such as publish/subscribe and tuple space architectures, promote loose coupling of collaborating participants. On the other hand, the paradigm in which many applications are developed is object-oriented, and traditional object referencing abstractions typically lack the beneficial loose coupling properties of aforementioned paradigms. This paper proposes to close the paradigmatic gap between an object-oriented language and its distributed communication infrastructure by introducing ambient references: loosely-coupled remote object references designed for mobile ad hoc networks.