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Mobile Application Development with MELON

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Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks (ADHOC-NOW 2014)

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Developing distributed applications for mobile ad hoc network continues to be challenging due to the dynamic and unpredictable nature of MANETs. MELON is a general purpose coordination language designed to provide flexible communication patterns for MANET applications while remaining lightweight. Based on a distributed shared message store, MELON abstracts network communication to an asynchronous exchange of persistent messages. MELON simplifies application development by supporting read-only and remove-only messages, bulk message retrieval, and per-host ordering of messages. In this paper, we review the MELON programming model, demonstrate its utility for writing MANET applications, and quantitatively compare it to traditional distributed computing paradigms in a MANET context. For a shared whiteboard application, we find MELON achieves 100% message delivery with 95% less latency than tuple spaces while also maintaining per-host message ordering.

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  1. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Justin Collins & Rajive Bagrodia

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Aizu Tsuruga, Fukushima, Japan

    Song Guo

  2. Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute (IGIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, Grao de Gandia, 46033, Gandia, Valencia, Spain

    Jaime Lloret

  3. Department of Computer Engineering (DISCA), Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera, Valencia, Spain

    Pietro Manzoni

  4. FTW - Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Stefan Ruehrup

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Collins, J., Bagrodia, R. (2014). Mobile Application Development with MELON. In: Guo, S., Lloret, J., Manzoni, P., Ruehrup, S. (eds) Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks. ADHOC-NOW 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8487. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07425-2_20

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