Enabling Cross-Technology Mobile Applications with Network-Aware References
International audience Mobile devices, such as smart phones, have become ubiquitous. This evolution has given rise to a vast ecosystem of mobile applications. Typically these applications only use a small subset of the networking technologies at their disposal. Building applications that use multipl...
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| Format: | Conference Object |
| Language: | English |
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HAL CCSD
2011
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| Online Access: | https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01582992 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01582992/document https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01582992/file/978-3-642-21464-6_10_Chapter.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21464-6_10 |
| Summary: | International audience Mobile devices, such as smart phones, have become ubiquitous. This evolution has given rise to a vast ecosystem of mobile applications. Typically these applications only use a small subset of the networking technologies at their disposal. Building applications that use multiple networking technologies simultaneously or exploit knowledge about the available connections is a laborious task. Programmers must manually keep track of the connectivity state and duplicate communication code per connection type. This paper presents network-aware references, a distributed object-oriented programming abstraction that eases multi-networking for mobile applications and allows programmers to react to changes in the connectivity of different networks around them. We show how network-aware references are implemented and evaluate how well they switch between technologies. |
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