Lightweight Replication Middleware for Data and Service Components in Dense MANETs

The increasing diffusion of wireless-enabled portable devices is pushing towards service provisioning over dense Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs), i.e., limited spatial regions, such as shopping malls, railway stations and airports, where a high number of mobile wireless peers autonomously cooperate, without the need for statically deployed network infrastructures. Dense MANET deployment scenarios can take advantage of high node population to replicate common-interest resources to increase their availability, by overcoming the unpredictable node exit from the dense region. The paper proposes a lightweight middleware, called REDMAN, to manage, retrieve and disseminate replicas of data/service components made available by cooperating nodes in a dense MANET. In particular, the paper focuses on the REDMAN original solutions both to determine the nodes belonging to dense MANETs without exploiting any positioning system and to dynamically elect a suitable replica manager node in charge of en...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: WOWMOM
• Authors: Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Eugenio Magistretti
• Keywords: Dense Manet, Dense MANET Deployment, Node, WOWMOM 2005