Challenges of communication in mobile computing

Abstract

Mobile wide area networks promise access to information from anywhere and the ability to work in new and more productive ways. However mobile computing environments are characterized by significant and rapid changes in supporting infrastructure. They offer one of the most diverse and challenging environments in which to build distributed systems. We evaluate various communication styles operating in conventional distributed systems concerning mobile computing environments. We argue that those connection-oriented paradigms are not well suited to operating in a mobile environment and instead propose a framework of extended event service on the event-based communication paradigm. The QoS control of event delivery and the agent coordination based on a group model are discussed.