%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Enabling Cross-Technology Mobile Applications with Network-Aware References
%+ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
%A Pinte, Kevin
%A Harnie, Dries
%A D’hondt, Theo
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 13th Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION)
%C Reykjavik, Iceland
%Y Wolfgang Meuter
%Y Gruia-Catalin Roman
%I Springer
%3 Coordination Models and Languages
%V LNCS-6721
%P 142-156
%8 2011-06-06
%D 2011
%R 10.1007/978-3-642-21464-6_10
%K Network-awareness
%K mobile applications
%K multi-networking
%K distributed programming
%K Bluetooth
%K Wi-Fi
%Z Computer Science [cs]
%Z Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]Conference papers
%X Mobile devices, such as smart phones, have become ubiquitous. This evolution has given rise to a vast ecosystem of mobile applications. Typically these applications only use a small subset of the networking technologies at their disposal. Building applications that use multiple networking technologies simultaneously or exploit knowledge about the available connections is a laborious task. Programmers must manually keep track of the connectivity state and duplicate communication code per connection type. This paper presents network-aware references, a distributed object-oriented programming abstraction that eases multi-networking for mobile applications and allows programmers to react to changes in the connectivity of different networks around them. We show how network-aware references are implemented and evaluate how well they switch between technologies.
%G English
%Z TC 6
%Z WG 6.1
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%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01582992
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