UCLA Parallel Computing Laboratory

CS 239 Nomadic Computing

Middleware Reading List

  • E. Amir, S. McCanne, and R. Katz. ``An Active Service Framework and Its Application to Real-Time Multimedia Transcoding,'' ACM SIGCOMM 1998 Conference: Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, 1998, Vancouver, BC, Canada. (gzipped postscript file)

  • O. Angin, A. Campbell, M. Kounavis, and R. Liao. ``The Mobiware Toolkit: Programmable Support for Adaptive Mobile Networking,'' IEEE Personal Communications, August 1998. (gzipped postscript file)

  • R. Bagrodia, M. Gerla, S. Lu, R. Meyer, D. Valentino, and L. Zhang, "Challenges: Supporting Nomadic Healers," UCLA CSD, Technical Report, 2000. (html file)

  • A. Bond, M. Gallagher, and J. Indulska. ``An Information Model for Nomadic Environments,'' IEEE Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 1998. (gzipped postscript file)

  • E. Brewer, R. Katz, E. Amir, H. Balakrishnan, Y. Chawathe, A. Fox, S. Gribble, T. Hodes, G. Nguyen, V. Padmanabhan, M. Stemm, S. Seshan, and T. Henderson. ``A Network Architecture for Heterogeneous Mobile Computing,'' IEEE Personal Communications, September 1998. (gzipped postscript file)

  • Y. Chawathe, S. Fink, S. McCanne, and E. Brewer. ``A Proxy Architecture for Reliable Multicast in Heterogeneous Environments,'' in Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Multimedia Conference, 1998. (gzipped postscript file)

  • D. Feldmeier, A. McAuley, J. Smith, D. Bakin, W. Marcus, and T. Raleigh. ``Protocol Boosters.'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,'' April 1998. (gzipped postscript file)

  • W. Feng, K. Dandlur, D. Saha, and K. Shin. ``Adaptive Packet Marking for Providing Differentiated Services in the Internet,'' Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Network Protocols, IEEE 1998. (pdf file)

  • G. Forman, J. Zahorjan, "The Challenges of Mobile Computing," IEEE Computer, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 38-47, 1994. (pdf file)

  • A. Fox, S. Gribble, Y. Chawathe, and E. Brewer. ``Adapting to Network and Client Variation Using Infrastructural Proxies: Lessons and Prospectives,'' IEEE Personal Communications, 1998. (gzipped postscript file)

  • S. Gribble, M. Welsh, E. Brewer, and D. Culler. ``The Multispace: an Evolutionary Platform for Infrastructural Services,'' USENIX 1999. (gzipped postscript file)

  • M. Haahr, R. Cunningham, V. Cahill, "Supporting CORBA Applications in a Mobile Environment," Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM, pp. 36-47, 1999. (pdf file)

  • A. Joseph, and M. Kaashock. ``Building Reliable Mobile-Aware Applications Using the Rover Toolkit,'' Second ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MoBiCom), 1996. (gzipped postscript file)

  • T. Mowbray, W. Ruh, Inside CORBA: Distributed Object Standards and Applications, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1997. (at Amazon.com)

  • B. Noble, M. Satyanarayanan, D. Narayanan, J. Tilton, J. Flinn, and K. Walker. ``Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility,'' in Proceedigns of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, 1997. (gzipped postscript file)

  • P. Sudame and B. Badrinath. ``Tranformer Tunnels: A Framework for Providing Route-Specific Adaptations,'' USENIX 1998. (gzipped postscript file)

  • Sun Microsystems, Jini Technology Architectural Overview, January 1999. (pdf file or html)

  • J. Waldo, "The Jini Architecture for Network-Centric Computing," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 42, No. 7, p. 76-82, 1999. (pdf file)

Quality of Service

  • D. Clark, W. Fang. "Explicit Allocation of Best-Effort Packet Delivery Service," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 6, No 4, August 1998. (pdf file)

  • R. Guerin, S. Kamat, V. Peris and R. Rajan, "Scalable QoS Provision Through Buffer Management," Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication, August 31 - September 4, 1998, Vancouver Canada, p. 29-40 (pdf file)

  • R. Jain and E. Knightly, "A Framework for Design and Evaluation of Admission Control Algorithms in Multi-Service Mobile Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM '99, New York, NY, March 1999. (Multiple formats)

  • S. B. Lee, A. Gahng-Seop, X. Zhang, and A. T. Campbell, "INSIGNIA: An IP-Based Quality of Service Framework for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Academic Press) , Special issue on Wireless and Mobile Computing and Communications, Vol. 60 No. 4 pg. 374-406, April 2000. (PDF file)

  • Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Songwu Lu, and Vaduvur Bharghavan, "A unified architecture for the design and evaluation of wireless fair queueing algorithms," Proceedings of the fifth annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking, August 15 - 19, 1999, Seattle, WA USA. (PDF file)

  • T. S. Eugene Ng, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang, "Packet Fair Queueing Algorithms For Wireless Networks with Location-Dependent Errors". INFOCOM'98. (Multiple formats)

  • I. Stoica, S. Shenker, and H. Zhang. "Core-Stateless Fair Queueing: Achieving Approximately Fair Bandwidth Allocation in High Speed Networks," Proceedings of SIGCOMM 1998. (gzipped postscript)

  • A. K. Talukdar, B. R. Badrinath and A. Acharya, "MRSVP: A Resource Reservation Protocol for an Integrated Services Network with Mobile Hosts," April 1998. (Compressed postscript file)

  • A. Terzis, M. Srivastava, L. Zhang. "A Simple QoS Signaling Protocol for Mobile Hosts in the Integrated Services Internet". Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM99, March 1999. (Compressed postscript file)

  • X. Xiao and L. Ni, "Internet QoS: A Big Picture," IEEE Network, Mar/Apr 99, p. 8-18. (pdf file)

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