RIMoCoW, a reconciliation infrastructure for CORBA component-based applications in mobile environments

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Abstract

Initially targeted at supporting individual work, personal devices are more and more used for collaborative activities in mobile environments. In this context, service continuity raises the problem of data availability during disconnections. This relies on optimistic replication with the deployment of a local copy of the necessary application components, leading to potential divergence of the distributed copies. Consequently, the main challenge consists in designing reconciliation mechanisms in order to synchronize copies at reconnection time. In this paper, we present RIMoCoW (Reconciliation Infrastructure for Mobile Collaborative Work) a reconciliation infrastructure designed and implemented for CORBA component-based applications in a mobile collaborative work environment. RIMoCoW follows a service-based approach and integrates SOCT4Mob (Serialization of Concurrent Operations by Transposition in Mobility) a synchronization algorithm we have extended for the mobile context. In addition, we propose recovery and sequencer related policies that fit to mobile requirements. Finally, RIMoCoW is implemented using an emergency management application. The performance results show that our infrastructure can reconcile in roughly 30 minutes more than 16.000 victims medical files filled by 8.000 rescuers, which corresponds to a level of 6 on a 6-degree European scale for technological accidents.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOn the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006
Subtitle of host publicationCoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE - OTM Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1668-1685
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)3540482741, 9783540482741
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2006
Externally publishedYes
EventOTM Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE 2006 - Montpellier, France
Duration: 29 Oct 20063 Nov 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4276 LNCS - II
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceOTM Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE 2006
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMontpellier
Period29/10/063/11/06

Keywords

  • CORBA component-based applications
  • Cooperative work
  • Mobility
  • RIMoCoW
  • Reconciliation of copies
  • SOCT4Mob

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