Hood: a neighborhood abstraction for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Group management for mobile Ad Hoc networks: design, implementation and experiment
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile data management
Delay-Aware Mobile Transactions
SEUS '08 Proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 10.2 international workshop on Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems
A Stability Criteria Membership Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
OTM '09 Proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, IS, and ODBASE 2009 on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: Part I
Flocks: enabling dynamic group interactions in mobile social networking applications
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
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We present a specification for a new, localized group membership service that maintains the membership status of adjacent nodes 驴 called neighbors 驴 in a mobile distributed system. The service builds on top of a neighborhood service which employs a simple heartbeat mechanism to discover and track neighbors in the mobile network. Both services assume unreliable communication as found in the wireless environment. No knowledge of the network topology is presumed.We impose a deadline for installing views of the membership to force timely deciding protocols. We give a simple implementation of the neighborhood and the group membership service. If the deadline of view installations is at least the heartbeat rate, we can prove the correctness of our suggested implementation. An application in mobile ad hoc networking exemplifies potential areas of deployment for a localized group membership service.