Programming in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract

The possibility for spontaneous ad hoc networks between mobile devices has been increasing as small devices become more capable of hosting useful networked applications. These applications face the challenges of frequent disconnections, highly dynamic network topologies, and varying communication patterns, a combination unique to mobile ad hoc networks. This is the first survey to examine current MANET programming approaches including tuple spaces, remote objects, publish/subscribe, and code migration through analysis and experimental results. We suggest that these approaches are essentially extensions to existing distributed and parallel computing concepts and new abstractions may be necessary to fully handle the programming issues presented by MANETs.

Enabling Cross-Technology Mobile Applications with Network-Aware References

“…No communication should be lost during this switch and the handover time (the time where no data is sent) should be kept to a minimum. The scenario we test is inspired by the "mobile connectivity" scenario in [14]: two smart phones that discover each other in the environment. One phone runs a receiver service, the other phone runs a sender.…”

“…First, we reconstruct the original scenario from [14] where the sender only sends messages to the receiver using Wi-Fi technology. We use the Only network behavior so that the ping message is only transmitted over a Wi-Fi link:…”