Context Aware Session Management for Services in Ad Hoc Networks

  • Authors:
  • Radu Handorean;Rohan Sen;Gregory Hackmann;Gruia-Catalin Roman

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering Washington University, Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO, USA;Department of Computer Science and Engineering Washington University, Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO, USA;Department of Computer Science and Engineering Washington University, Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO, USA;Department of Computer Science and Engineering Washington University, Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO, USA

  • Venue:
  • SCC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The increasing ubiquity of wireless mobile devices is promoting unprecedented levels of electronic collaboration among devices interoperating to achieve a common goal. Issues related to host interoperability are addressed partially by the service-oriented computing paradigm. However, certain technical concerns relating to reliable interactions among hosts in ad hoc networks have not yet received much attention. We introduce follow-me sessions, where interactions occur between a client and a service, rather than a specific provider or server. We allow the client to switch service providers, if needed. We exploit strategies involving the use of contextual information, strong process migration, context-sensitive binding, and locationagnostic communication protocols. We show how follow-me sessions mitigate issues related to proxy-based service-oriented architectures in ad hoc networks.