Spotcast -- A Communication Abstraction for Proximity-Based Mobile Applications

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serval:BIB_30D445D0E409
Type
Inproceedings: an article in a conference proceedings.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Spotcast -- A Communication Abstraction for Proximity-Based Mobile Applications
Title of the conference
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications
Author(s)
Bostanipour B., Garbinato B., Holzer A.
Publisher
IEEE Press
Address
Los Alamitos, California
ISBN
978-0-7695-4773-2
Publication state
Published
Issued date
08/2012
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Series
NCA'12
Pages
121 -129
Language
english
Abstract
We introduce spotcast, a new communication abstraction specifically aimed at the development of mobile proximity-based applications running in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Our motivation lies in the fact that traditional communication abstractions, typically broadcast primitives with strong consistency guarantees, do not adequately capture the intrinsic here-and-now nature of such applications. Rather, developers need a communication abstraction offering the notion of proximity-based diffusion and some level of message durability, which is precisely what spotcast provides. We illustrate how spotcast can be used to implement mobile applications and we shortly discuss the correctness and the implementability of the spotcast abstraction in MANETs.
Keywords
dop, softege
Web of science
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26/09/2012 15:56
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