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Mobile Service Clouds: A Self-Managing Infrastructure for Autonomic Mobile Computing Services

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Self-Managed Networks, Systems, and Services (SelfMan 2006)

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Abstract

We recently introduced Service Clouds, a distributed infrastructure designed to facilitate rapid prototyping and deployment of autonomic communication services. In this paper, we propose a model that extends Service Clouds to the wireless edge of the Internet. This model, called Mobile Service Clouds, enables dynamic instantiation, composition, configuration, and reconfiguration of services on an overlay network to support mobile computing. We have implemented a prototype of this model and applied it to the problem of dynamically instantiating and migrating proxy services for mobile hosts. We conducted a case study involving data streaming across a combination of PlanetLab nodes, local proxies, and wireless hosts. Results are presented demonstrating the effectiveness of the prototype in establishing new proxies and migrating their functionality in response to node failures.

This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research under Grant No. N00014-01-1-0744, and in part by National Science Foundation grants EIA-0000433, EIA-0130724, and ITR-0313142.

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    Farshad A. Samimi & Philip K. McKinley

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Samimi, F.A., McKinley, P.K., Sadjadi, S.M. (2006). Mobile Service Clouds: A Self-Managing Infrastructure for Autonomic Mobile Computing Services. In: Keller, A., Martin-Flatin, JP. (eds) Self-Managed Networks, Systems, and Services. SelfMan 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3996. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11767886_10

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