@inproceedings{b60a533e8042485f9a2a413c844b4b0c,
title = "Autonomous virtual mobile nodes",
abstract = "This paper presents a new abstraction for virtual infrastructure in mobile ad hoc networks. An Autonomous Virtual Mobile Node (AVMN) is a robust and reliable entity that is designed to cope with the inherent difficulties caused by processors arriving, leaving, and moving according to their own agendas, as well as with failures and energy limitations. There are many types of applications that may make use of the AVMN infrastructure: tracking, supporting mobile users, or searching for energy sources. The AVMN extends the focal point abstraction in [9] and the virtual mobile node abstraction in [10]. The new abstraction is that of a virtual general-purpose computing entity, an automaton that can make autonomous on-line decisions concerning its own movement. We describe a self-stabilizing implementation of this new abstraction that is resilient to the chaotic behavior of the physical processors and provides automatic recovery from any corrupted state of the system.",
keywords = "Ad hoc networks, Distributed algorithms, Fault-tolerance, Location-aware, Mobile networks, Virtual infrastructure",
author = "Shlomi Dolev and Seth Gilbert and Elad Schiller and Shvartsman, {Alex A.} and Jennifer Welch",
note = "Funding Information: This work is supported in part by the following grants: NSF CCR-0098305, NSF ITR 0121277, NSF 64961-CS, NSF 9988304, NSF 0311368, NSF Career Award 9984774, AFOSR Contract #FA9550-04-1-0121, DARPA Contract #F33615-01-C-1896, and NTT Grant MIT9904-12. The first author and third authors are partially supported by an IBM faculty award, the Israeli ministry of defense, NSF, and the Rita Altura trust chair in computer sciences. Funding Information: One of the primary differences between an AVMN, introduced in this paper, and a virtual mobile node (see [10]) is that an AVMN can move autonomously, choosing to move This work is supported in part by the following grants: NSF CCR-0098305, NSF ITR 0121277, NSF 64961-CS, NSF 9988304, NSF 0311368, NSF Career Award 9984774, AFOSR Contract #FA9550-04-1-0121, DARPA Contract #F33615-01-C-1896, and NTT Grant MIT9904-12. The first author and third authors are partially supported by an IBM faculty award, the Israeli ministry of defense, NSF, and the Rita Altura trust chair in computer sciences. Publisher Copyright: Copyright 2005 ACM.",
year = "2005",
doi = "10.1145/1080810.1080821",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 2005 Joint Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing, DIALM-POMC'05",
pages = "62--69",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2005 Joint Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing, DIALM-POMC'05",
}