Mobility: Processes, Computers, and Agents

Preface. I. INTRODUCTION. 1. Introduction. Benefits, Deployment Challenges, and Technical Issues. Overview of the Book. II. MOBILITY IN A CLUSTER: PROCESS MIGRATION. 2. Process Migration. Benefits and Challenges of Process Migration. Applications. Myths and Facts. 3. Early Work. J. Shoch and UeJ. Hupp, The Worm Programs - Early Experience with Distributed Computing. M. Powell and B. Miller, Process Migration in DEMOS/MP. 4. Kernel Supported Migration. A. Barak and R. Wheeler, MOSIX: An Integrated Multiprocessor UNIX. F. Douglis and J. Ousterhout, Transparent Process Migration: Design Alternatives and the Sprite Implementation. Y. Artsy and R. Finkel, Designing a Process Migration Facility: The Charlotte Experience. E. Zayas, Attacking the Process Migration Bottleneck. M. Theimer, K. Lantz, and D. Cheriton, Preemptable Remote Execution Facilities for the V System. D.S. Milojicic, W. Zint, A. Dangel, and P. Giese, Task Migration on the top of the Mach Microkernel. 5. User-Space Migration. M. Litzkow and M. Solomon, Supporting Checkpointing and Process Migration Outside the UNIX Kernel. E. Jul, H. Levy, N. Hutchinson, and A. Black, Fine-Grained Mobility in the Emerald System. P. Smith and N.C. Hutchinson, Heterogeneous Process Migration: The Tui System. 6. Migration Policies. Luis-Felipe Cabrera, The Influence of Workload on Load Balancing Strategies. Exploiting Process Lifetime Distributions for Dynamic Load Balancing. 7. Other Sources of Information. III. PHYSICAL MOBILITY: MOBILE COMPUTING. 8. Mobile Computing. Benefits and Challenges of Mobile Computing. Applications. Myths and Facts. Overview. G.H. Forman and J. Zahorjan, The Challenges of Mobile Computing. 9. Limits on Connectivity. J.J. Kistler and M. Satyanarayanan, Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System. L. Mummert, M. Ebling, and M. Satyanarayanan, Exploiting Weak Connectivity for Mobile File Access. D. Terry, M. Theimer, K. Petersen, A. Demers, M. Spreitzer, and C. Hauser, Managing Update Conflicts in a Weakly Connected Replicated Storage System. A.D. Joseph, J.A. Tauber, and M.F. Kaashoek, Mobile Computing with the Rover Toolkit. B.C. Housel and D.B. Lindquist, WebExpress: A System for Optimizing Web Browsing in a Wireless Environment. 10. Mobile IP. J. Ioannidis and G.Q. Maguire, Jr., The Design and Implementation of a Mobile Internetworking Architecture. C.E. Perkins, Mobile Networking with Mobile IP. S. Cheshire and M. Baker, Internet Mobility 4x4. H. Balakrishnan, V.N. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan, and R.H. Katz, A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links. 11. Ubiquitous Computing. M. Weiser, Some Computer Science Issues in Ubiquitous Computing. A. Fox, S.D. Gribble, Y. Chawathe, and E.A. Brewer, Adapting to Network and Client Variation Using Active Proxies: Lessons and Perspectives. 12. Other Sources of Information. IV. MOBILITY ON THE INTERNET: MOBILE AGENTS. 13. Mobility on the Internet. Benefits and Challenges of Mobile Agents. Applications. Myths and Facts. 14. Mobile Agent Systems. J.E. White, Telescript Technology: Mobile Agents. D. Lange and M. Oshima, Mobile Agents with Java: The Aglet API. D. Kotz, R. Gray, S. Nog, D. Rus, S. Chawla, and G. Cybenko, AGENT TCL: Targeting the Needs of Mobile Computers. T. Walsh, N. Paciorek, and D. Wong, Security and Reliability in Concordia. J. Baumann, F. Hohl, K. Rothermel, and M. Straber, Mole - Concepts of a Mobile Agent System. D. Johansen, R. van Renesse, and F.B. Schneider, Operating System Support for Mobile Agents. M. Ranganathan, A. Acharya, S.D. Sjharma, and J. Saltz, Network-Aware Mobile Programs. H. Peine and T. Stolpmann, The Architecture of the Area Platform for Mobile Agents. D.S. Milojicic, D. Chauhan, and W. LaForge, Mobile Objects and Agents (MOA). G. Glass, ObjectSpace Voyager Core Package Technical Overview. D.S. Milojicic, B. Breugst, I. Busse, J. Campbell, S. Covaci, B. Friedman, K. Kosaka, D. Lange, K. Ono, M. Oshima, C. Tham, S. Virdhagriswaran, and J. White, MASIF, The OMG Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facility. 15. Other Sources of Information. V. SUMMARY. 16. Summary. Comparison. Looking into the Future. Summary. References. 0201379287T04062001