Algorithm development in the mobile environment

Abstract

Mobility is emerging as a new research field with its own characteristic problems, models, and algorithms. Fixed networks are commonplace but the challenges of mobility such as the transient nature of connections, reduced bandwidth, and limited processing power have made incorporating mobility into this existing environment challenging. Our contribution to the rapid integration of mobility is the design and development of algorithms in the mobile environment which will serve as a foundation for mobile applications. In this paper, we describe two models for mobility, outline the challenges of each environment, and provide approaches to algorithm development within each model.