Abstract
Pervasive computing enables seamless integration of computing technology into everyday life to make upto- date information and services proactively available to the users based on their needs and behaviors. We aim to develop a transaction management scheme as a pertinent component for such environment supported by either structured or ad hoc networks. We propose Transactional Agents for Pervasive COmputing (TAPCO), which utilizes a dynamic hierarchical meta data structure that captures the semantic contents of the underlying heterogeneous data sources. Mobile agents process the transactions collaboratively, to preserve ACID properties without violating local autonomy of the data sources. TAPCO is simulated and compared against Decentralized Serialization Graph Testing (DSGT) protocol. The results show that TAPCO outperforms DSGT in several ways. In contrast to DSGT that did not consider local transactions, TAPCO supports both local and global transactions without violating the local autonomy.
Recommended Citation
M. Ongtang et al., "Transactional Agents for Pervasive Computing," Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (2008, Marrakech), pp. 1122 - 1127, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Jul 2008.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625744
Meeting Name
2008 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (2008: July 6-9, Marrakech)
Department(s)
Computer Science
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Keywords and Phrases
Data Structures; Mobile Agents; Multi-Agent Systems; Metadata; Ubiquitous computing
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-1-4244-2702-4
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Jul 2008
