Event-Driven Mobile Computing with Objects

We motivate why event-driven approaches are suitable to address the challenges of mobile and ubiquitous computing. In particular, we describe the beneficial properties of event-based communication in so-called mobile ad hoc networks. However, because contemporary programming languages feature no built-in support for event-driven programming, programmers are often forced to integrate event-driven concepts with a different programming paradigm. In particular, we study the difficulties in combining events with the object-oriented paradigm. We argue that these difficulties form the basis of what we call the object-event impedance mismatch. We highlight the various issues at the software engineering level and propose to resolve this mismatch by introducing a novel object-oriented programming language that supports event-driven abstractions from the ground up.

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AmbientTalk: Object-oriented Event-driven Programming in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

XXVI International Conference of the Chilean Society of Computer Science (SCCC'07) ◽

10.1109/sccc.2007.12 ◽

2007 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

Tom Van Cutsem ◽

Stijn Mostinckx ◽

Elisa Gonzalez Boix ◽

Jessie Dedecker ◽

Wolfgang De Meuter

Keyword(s):

Ad Hoc Networks ◽

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Event Driven ◽

Mobile Ad Hoc ◽

Hoc Networks

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AmbientTalk: Object-oriented Event-driven Programming in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

XXVI International Conference of the Chilean Society of Computer Science (SCCC'07) ◽

10.1109/sccc.2007.4396972 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Tom Van Cutsem ◽

Stijn Mostinckx ◽

Elisa Gonzalez Boix ◽

Jessie Dedecker ◽

Wolfgang De Meuter

Keyword(s):

Ad Hoc Networks ◽

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Event Driven ◽

Mobile Ad Hoc ◽

Hoc Networks

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Object-Oriented Coordination in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Coordination Models and Languages ◽

10.1007/978-3-540-72794-1_13 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 231-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Tom Van Cutsem ◽

Jessie Dedecker ◽

Wolfgang De Meuter

Keyword(s):

Ad Hoc Networks ◽

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Mobile Ad Hoc ◽

Hoc Networks

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Event-Based Interaction for Rescue and Emergency Applications in Mobile and Disruptive Environments

Principles and Applications of Distributed Event-Based Systems - Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-697-6.ch018 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 411-431

Author(s):

Katrine Stemland Skjelsvik ◽

Vera Goebel ◽

Thomas Plagemann

Keyword(s):

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Information Overload ◽

Asynchronous Communication ◽

Transmission Range ◽

Application Domain ◽

Event Notification ◽

Network Partitions ◽

Hoc Networks ◽

Event Based

Event-based interaction is suitable for rescue and emergency applications because the filtering capabilities can help to prevent information overload, and such interaction may be offered by an Event Notification Service (ENS). We focus on ENS in sparse Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), since an incident may occur e.g., in a deserted place lacking infrastructure, the density of nodes may be low, and there may be physical obstacles limiting the transmission range. The asynchronous communication provided by the ENS is suited for an environment where there may be long-lasting network partitions. In this chapter, we describe characteristics of rescue operations and use this as a basis for discussing ENS design choices such as subscription language, architecture and routing. Afterwards, we present our own ENS solution, the Distributed Event Notification Service (DENS), which is tailored for such an application domain.

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Event-Based System Architecture in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)

Principles and Applications of Distributed Event-Based Systems - Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-697-6.ch015 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 346-368 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Guanhong Pei ◽

Binoy Ravindran

Keyword(s):

Ad Hoc Networks ◽

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Architectural Support ◽

Loosely Coupled ◽

Mobile Ad Hoc ◽

And Performance ◽

Hoc Networks ◽

Event Based ◽

Message Overhead

The strong decoupling between information producers and consumers in event-based (usually publish/subscribe) systems is attractive in the loosely coupled and dynamic network scenarios such as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). However, achieving end-to-end timeliness, reliability properties, with limited message overhead, is still an open problem in publish/subscribe (P/S) systems in MANETs. In this chapter, we cover the current state of the knowledge of interconnection topology, event routing schemes and innovative architectural support of P/S systems in MANETs with latest academic and industrial research practices and outcomes. We consider challenging issues from timeliness, reliability, message overhead, etc. with multi-publish-hop event delivery in typical use notional scenarios. Both theoretical analysis and performance evaluation of different solutions are afforded. We also examine and discuss a special issue on system re-configurability and “event causal dependencies.”

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