Paper Info
Title
Fractal: A Mobile Code Based Framework for Dynamic Application Protocol Adaptation in Pervasive Computing
Abstract
The rapid growth of heterogeneous devices and diverse networks in our daily life, makes it is very difficult, if not impossible, to build a one-size-fits-all application or protocol, which can run well in such a dynamic environment. Adaptation has been considered as a general approach to address the mismatch problem between clients and servers; however, we envision that the missing part, which is also a big challenge, is how to inject and deploy adaptation functionality into the environment. In this paper we propose a novel application level protocol adaptation framework, Fractal, which uses the mobile code technology for protocol adaptation and leverages existing content distribution networks (CDN) for protocol adaptors (mobile codes) deployment. To the best of our knowledge, Fractal is the first application level protocol adaptation framework that considers the real deployment problem using mobile code and content distribution networks. To evaluate the proposed framework, we implement an adaptive communication optimization protocol by dynamically selecting four communication protocols, including Direct sending, Gzip, Bitmap, and Vary-sized blocking. In the comparison with the static and centralized protocol adaptation approaches, evaluation shows good results on both the client side and server side. For some clients, the total communication overhead reduces 41% compared with no protocol adaptation mechanism, and 14% compared with the static protocol adaptation approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/IPDPS.2005.230
IPDPS
Keywords
Field
DocType
pervasive computing,protocol adaptation mechanism,communication protocol,protocol adaptation,mobile code,protocol adaptor,dynamic application protocol adaptation,static protocol adaptation approach,novel application level protocol,centralized protocol adaptation approach,adaptive communication optimization protocol,application level protocol adaptation,protocols,bitmap,col,mobile communication,fractal,computer networks,mobile computing,fractals,distributed programming,ubiquitous computing
Resource Reservation Protocol,Two-phase commit protocol,Reverse Address Resolution Protocol,Tunneling protocol,Real Time Streaming Protocol,Computer science,Parallel computing,Computer network,Internet protocol suite,General Inter-ORB Protocol,Internetwork protocol,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2312-9
3
0.44
References 
Authors
35
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hanping Lufei1295.08
Weisong Shi22323163.09