Home // FUTURE COMPUTING 2012, The Fourth International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications // View article

JION: A JavaSpaces Implementation for Opportunistic Networks

Authors:
Abdulkader Benchi
Pascale Launay
Frédéric Guidec

Keywords: peer-to-peer computing; opportunistic networking; D-MANETs; coordination middleware; JavaSpaces.

Abstract:
Disconnected mobile ad hoc networks (or D-MANETs) are partially or intermittently connected wireless networks, in which continuous end-to-end connectivity between mobile nodes is not guaranteed. The ability to self-form and self-manage brings great opportunities for D-MANETs, but developing distributed applications capable of running in such networks remains a major challenge. A middleware system is thus needed between network level and application level in order to ease application development, and help developers take advantage of D-MANETs' unique features. In this paper, we introduce JION (JavaSpaces Implementation for Opportunistic Networks), a coordination middleware specifically designed for D-MANETs, and with which pre-existing or new JavaSpaces-based applications can be easily deployed in such networks.

Pages: 49 to 54

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: July 22, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3735

ISBN: 978-1-61208-217-2

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 22, 2012 to July 27, 2012