Programming and Managing the Swarm -- An Operating System for an Emerging System of Mobile Devices

Todays situation is characterized by an increasing pervasiveness of a plethora of mobile devices featuring different capabilities and exhibiting different system interfaces making the handling of these devices and especially the cooperation between different devices a complex task. In this paper, we...

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Veröffentlicht in:2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks S. 9 - 16
Hauptverfasser: Graff, Daniel, Richling, Jan, Werner, Matthias
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: IEEE 01.12.2013
Schlagworte:
context awareness
coordination
cyber-physical systems
distributed runtime environment
Hardware
Mobile handsets
Operating systems
Optimal scheduling
Programming
real space-time
Runtime
spatial-temporal constraints
Virtualization
ISBN:0769551599, 9780769551593
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Zusammenfassung:Todays situation is characterized by an increasing pervasiveness of a plethora of mobile devices featuring different capabilities and exhibiting different system interfaces making the handling of these devices and especially the cooperation between different devices a complex task. In this paper, we consider the sum of all these devices as one emerging system (the swarm) and present an approach of a swarm operating system that on a systemic level manages these devices (local devices give up their autonomy) while providing a common interface to user applications. We provide a programming model for distributed mobile applications that abstracts from error-prone aspects such as distribution and concurrency by giving the programmer a systemic view to system resources. The model allows the programmer to define actions that can be restricted in space and time. Together with a high level goal, an entire application emerges implicitly based on those defined actions. In order to execute such applications, we present an architecture for a runtime system that uses virtualization techniques in order to execute multiple independently developed applications in parallel. The system follows a service-oriented architecture: one of the core services is the space-time scheduler that plans applications (a set of actions) in time and space.
ISBN:0769551599
9780769551593
DOI:10.1109/MSN.2013.12