Architecture for group communication in mobile systems

Author

Prakash, Ravi ; Baldoni, Roberto

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Program, Texas Univ., Dallas, TX, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

20-23 Oct 1998

Firstpage

235

Lastpage

242

Abstract

In mobile computing systems the network configuration changes due to node mobility. The paper identifies the issues a group communication service has to take into account in order to handle node mobility. These include the need to identify the location of a node, and the ability to cope with inaccuracies in the determination of a group membership. A multi level architecture for group communication in mobile systems is presented. This architecture contains a synchronous proximity layer protocol to determine the set of mobile nodes in the proximity of a given node in the network. This information is used by a three round group membership protocol for construction of groups used by mobile applications. As an example, the architecture is specialized to solve the channel allocation problem

Keywords

channel allocation; groupware; mobile computing; protocols; channel allocation problem; group communication architecture; group communication service; mobile applications; mobile computing systems; mobile nodes; multi level architecture; network configuration; node mobility; synchronous proximity layer protocol; three round group membership protocol; Cellular networks; Channel allocation; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Computer science; Intelligent networks; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Protocols; Remuneration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliable Distributed Systems, 1998. Proceedings. Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

West Lafayette, IN

ISSN

1060-9857

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9218-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RELDIS.1998.740505

Filename

740505