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MELON: A Persistent Message-Based Communication Paradigm for MANETs

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In this paper we introduce MELON, a new communication paradigm tailored to mobile ad hoc networks, based on novel interactions with a distributed shared message store. MELON provides remove-only, read-only, and private messages, as well as bulk message operations. The dynamic nature of MANETs is addressed with persistent messages, completely distributed message storage, and flexible communication patterns. We quantitatively compare a prototype implementation of MELON to existing paradigms to show its feasibility as the basis for new MANET applications. Experiments demonstrate 40 % better throughput on average than traditional paradigms, as well as 70 % faster local insertion and removal operations compared to an existing tuple space library.

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

    Justin Collins & Rajive Bagrodia

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  1. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Ivan Stojmenovic

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

    Zixue Cheng

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

    Song Guo

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Collins, J., Bagrodia, R. (2014). MELON: A Persistent Message-Based Communication Paradigm for MANETs. In: Stojmenovic, I., Cheng, Z., Guo, S. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. MobiQuitous 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11569-6_59

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