Location-Based and content-based information access in mobile peer-to-peer computing: the TOTA approach

  • Authors:
  • Marco Mamei;Franco Zambonelli

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy;Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

  • Venue:
  • AP2PC'03 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Mobile peer-to-peer computing calls for suitable middleware and programming models to provide dynamic access to information and resources in dynamic network environments. In particular, location-based access and content-based access to information appear two very useful mechanisms. Here we present how both these two kinds of information access can be realized via TOTA (“Tuples On The Air”), a novel middleware that relies on spatially distributed tuples for supporting uncoupled and adaptive interactions between application agents. The TOTA middleware takes care of both propagating tuples across a network on the basis of application-specific rules and of adaptively re-shaping the resulting distributed structures accordingly to changes in the network structures. In particular, the effectiveness of our model will be tested in providing means for both location-based and content-based access to information.