Self-maintained distributed tuples for field-based coordination in dynamic networks

  • Authors:
  • Marco Mamei;Franco Zambonelli

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy;University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Field-based coordination is a very promising approach for a wide range of application scenarios in modern dynamic networks. To implement such an approach, one can rely on distributed tuples injected in a network and propagated to form a distributed data structure to be sensed by application agents. However, to gain the full benefits from such a coordination approach, it is important to enable the distributed tuples to preserve their structures despite the dynamics of the network. In this paper, we show how a variety of self-maintained distributed tuple structures for field-based coordination can be easily programmed in the TOTA middleware. Several examples clarify the approach, and performance data is presented to verify its effectiveness.