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Ambient references: addressing objects in mobile networks

Authors:

Tom Van Cutsem,

Jessie Dedecker,

Stijn Mostinckx,

Elisa Gonzalez,

Wolfgang De MeuterAuthors Info & Claims

OOPSLA '06: Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

Pages 986 - 997

https://doi.org/10.1145/1176617.1176757

Published: 22 October 2006 Publication History

Abstract

A significant body of research in ubiquitous computing deals with mobile networks, i.e. networks of mobile devices interconnected by wireless communication links. Due to the very nature of such mobile networks, addressing and communicating with remote objects is significantly more difficult than in their fixed counterparts. This paper reconsiders the remote object reference concept - one of the most fundamental programming ions of distributed programming languages - in the context of mobile networks. We describe four desirable characteristics of remote References in mobile networks, show how existing remote object References fail to exhibit them, and subsequently propose ambient references: remote object references designed for mobile networks.

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Ambient references: addressing objects in mobile networks
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types
        Concurrent programming languages
        Distributed programming languages
        Parallel programming languages

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