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| Title: | Resilient partitioning of pervasive computing services |
| Authors: | Bainomugisha, Engineer |
| Keywords: | Distributed systems
Pervasive applications
Language constructs and features
Concurrent programming structures |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Abstract: | The vision of pervasive computing is being realized with many elements of pervasive computing becoming available: hand-held, wall-sized and wearable computers,
wireless technology and devices to sense and control appliances. While this vision
is becoming more realistic from the hardware point of view, the matching software tools have not matured at the same rate. Pervasive computing environments are
naturally distributed over multiple devices connected via wireless technology.
This thesis explores the application partitioning techniques for development of
pervasive computing applications. Using these techniques, software applications can
be decomposed into parts that can be distributed amongst multiple devices. Application partitioning in a pervasive computing environment raises new requirements:
runtime application partitioning that is user controlled, retractable and resilient to network failures. We observe that current state of the art software tools miss out these important characteristics that apply to the pervasive computing environment.
We propose a resilient actor model to structurally add this property to the
pervasive applications. This model ensures that an application can be dynamically
partitioned to run on any available device in the surroundings at runtime. The
partitioning realized using resilient actor model is user guided and the resulting
partitioned application is resilient to network failures. |
| Description: | A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master after Master of Computer Science. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/523 |
| Appears in Collections: | Theses & Dissertations (CIT)
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