Routing Based on Message Attraction

Author

Calsavara, Alcides ; Lima, Luiz A P, Jr.

Author_Institution

Grad. Program on Comput. Sci. (PPGIa), Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

20-23 April 2010

Firstpage

189

Lastpage

194

Abstract

Application-level message routing mechanisms are crucial to the development of distributed applications and infrastructures that are flexible, adaptable, context-aware and mobile. This paper proposes to use the concept of magnetic fields borrowed from physics in order to enable a self-organizing message routing mechanism. First, a generic model of virtual magnetic fields is presented, then a distributed self-stabilizing update protocol is defined and applied to the load-balancing problem in order to illustrate the employment of the theoretical concepts. Simulation results are then discussed.

Keywords

distributed processing; resource allocation; routing protocols; telecommunication network routing; application level message routing mechanism; distributed self-stabilizing update protocol; load balancing problem; message attraction; self-organizing message routing mechanism; virtual magnetic fields; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer science; Conferences; Employment; Magnetic fields; Mobile computing; Physics; Protocols; Routing; load balancing; message routing; virtual magnetic fields;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), 2010 IEEE 24th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6701-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAINA.2010.111

Filename

5480882