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This paper presents a group communication system for mobile devices, called DistributedGCS. Mobile communication is slow, expensive and suffers from occasional disconnections, especially when users are moving. DistributedGCS is based on SMS and enables group communication despite these restrictions. It provides all primitives needed for a chat application and handles process failures. As mobile communication is expensive, DistributedGCS is designed for small message overhead and, additionally, exploits SMS based message relaying to handle short-term disconnections. In this work, we present the group maintenance service and the multicast service of DistributedGCS. In order to distribute the overhead of failure discovery over all processes we introduce the concept of a circle of responsibility for failure detection. We discuss informally that DistributedGCS can handle the most common failures properly while keeping the message overhead very low.
The work in this paper is based on an earlier work by Christian Seeger, Bettina Kemme and Huaigu Wu: SMS based Group Communication System for Mobile Devices, that appeared in the Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, (c) ACM, 2010.
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Kemme, B., Seeger, C. (2010). Distributed Group Communication System for Mobile Devices Based on SMS. In: Sachs, K., Petrov, I., Guerrero, P. (eds) From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6462. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17226-7_16
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