Revisiting Distributed Protocols for Mobility at the Application Layer
During more than a decade, many proposals and standards have been designed to deal with the mobility issues; however, there are still some serious limitations in basing solutions on them. In this paper we discuss the possibility of handling mobility at the application layer. We do this while revisiting the conventional implementation of the Two Phase Commit (2PC) protocol which is a fundamental asset of transactional technology for ensuring the consistent commitment of distributed transactions. The solution is based on an execution framework providing an efficient extension that is aware of the mobility and preserves the 2PC principle.
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[1] D. Le, X. Fu and D. Hogrefe, "A Review of Mobility Support Paradigms
for the Internet," Tech. Rep. N┬░IFI-TB-2005-01, C.S. Institute, Georg-
August University, January 2005.
[2] N. Nouali, A. Doucet, and H. Drias, "A Two-Phase Commit Protocol for
Mobile Wireless Environment," in Proc. Sixteenth Australasian
Database Conference (ADC2005), Newcastle, Australia. CRPIT, 39.
Williams, H. E. and Dobbie, G., Eds., ACS. 2005, pp. 135-144.
[3] P.A. Bernstein, V. Hadzilacos, and N. Goodman, "Concurrency control
and recovery in database systems (Addison Wesley, 1987)".
[4] G. Weikum, G. Vossen, "Transactional information systems, Theory,
algorithms, and the practice of concurrency control and recovery", USA:
Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.
[5] M. Handley, H. Schulzrinne, E. Schooler, and J. Rosenberg, "SIP:
Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 2543, Internet Engineering Task
Force, March 1999.
[6] E. Wedlund, and H. Schulzrinne, "Mobility support using SIP-
WOWMOM'99," in Proc. of Second ACM International Workshop on
Wireless Mobile Multimedia, Seattle, Washington, USA, 1999.
[7] D. Vali, S; Paskalis, A. Kaloxylos and L. Merakos, "An Efficient Micromobility
Solution for SIP Networks," IEEE globecom 2003, San
Francisco, CA, USA, 2003.
[8] W. Kim, M. Kim, K. Lee, C. Yu and B. L. Link. "Layer Assisted
Mobility Support Using SIP for Real-time Multimedia
Communications," ACM MobiWac, 2004.
[9] F. Chahbour, N. Nouali and K. Zeraoulia, "Fast Handoff for Hierarchical
Mobile SIP Networks" accepted for presentation at the 3rd World
Enformatika Conference, WEC-05 to be held on April 27-29, 2005 in
Istanbul, Turkey.
[10] W. Kim, M. Kim, K. Lee, C. Yu and B. Link, "Link Layer Assisted
Mobility Support Using SIP for Real-time Multimedia
Communications," ACM MobiWac, 2004.
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