@INPROCEEDINGS{Cast0107:Locating,
AUTHOR="Castro, Paul and Greenstein, Benjamin and Muntz, Richard and
Kermani, Parviz and Bisdikian, Chatschik and Papadopouli, Maria",
TITLE="Locating Application Data Across Service Discovery Domains",
BOOKTITLE=mobicom,
ADDRESS="Rome, Italy",
PAGES="28-42",
MONTH=jul,
YEAR=2001,
ABSTRACT="The bulk of proposed pervasive computing devices such as PDAs
and cellular telephones operate as thin clients within a larger
infrastructure. To access services within their local environment, these
devices participate in a service discovery protocol which involves a
master directory that registers all services available in the local
environment. These directories typically are isolated from each other.
Devices that move across service discovery domains have no access to
information outside their current local domain. In this paper we propose
an application-level protocol called VIA that enables data sharing among
discovery domains. Each directory maintains a table of active links to
other directories that share related information. A set of linked
directories forms a data cluster that can be queried by devices for
information. The data cluster is distributed, self-organizing,
responsive to data mobility, and robust to failures. Using
application-defined data schemas, clusters organize themselves into a
hierarchy for efficient querying and network resource usage. Through
analysis and simulation we describe the behavior of VIA under different
workloads and show that the protocol overhead for both maintaining a
cluster and handling failures grows slowly with the number of gateways.",
URL="http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?linked=1&part=series&idx=SERIES395&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=1736488&CFTOKEN=94852365",
ENTRYBY="128.59.26.180"
}