| Publication Title: |
Autonomous Virtual Mobile Nodes |
| Publication Author: |
Dolev, Shlomi |
| Additional Authors: |
Seth Gilbert, Elad Schiller, Alex Shvartsman, Jennifer Welch |
| LCS Document Number: |
MIT-LCS-TR-992 |
| Publication Date: |
6-15-2005 |
| LCS Group: |
Theory of Computation |
| Additional URL: |
|
| Abstract: |
| This paper presents a new abstraction for virtual infrastructure in mobile ad hoc networks. An Autonomous
Virtual Mobile Node (AVMN) is a robust and reliable entity that is designed to cope with the
inherent difficulties caused by processors arriving, leaving, and moving according to their own agendas,
as well as with failures and energy limitations. There are many types of applications that may make use
of the AVMN infrastructure: tracking, supporting mobile users, or searching for energy sources.
The AVMN extends the focal point abstraction in [9] and the virtual mobile node abstraction in [10].
The new abstraction is that of a virtual general-purpose computing entity, an automaton that can make
autonomous on-line decisions concerning its own movement. We describe a self-stabilizing implementation
of this new abstraction that is resilient to the chaotic behavior of the physical processors and provides
automatic recovery from any corrupted state of the system. |
| To obtain this publication: |
|
|
|
To purchase a printed copy of this publication please contact
MIT
Document Services.
|