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The increasing mobility of Internet users and the growing need to collaborate with staff travelling on business belong to the key characteristics of the future Internet. Mobile collaborative applications require novel schemes for group communication that actively support collaborations in wireless scenarios. An intrinsic problem of collaborations in wireless scenarios is the temporary connection loss with the group due to user mobility and network issues. Existing group communication protocols do not sufficiently support this situation. In this paper, we present a new peer-to-peer group communication protocol, called Moversight, that was specifically designed to support closed group cooperation in mobile environments with varying churn rates. It applies a new group communication paradigm, called mobile optimistic virtual synchrony, to handle churn-related peer failures. It enhances the virtual synchrony paradigm for mobile scenarios. The paper introduces the paradigm and describes the main protocol features of Moversight. Finally we present simulation results to demonstrate the applicability of the protocol.
Nowadays, collaborative applications play an increasing role in mobile communications in order to enable cooperation among mobile and/or stationary participants – often using the peer-to-peer (P2P) group communication paradigm. The probability of communication failures increases in mobile environments. As a consequence, frequent leaving and joining of partners can be observed resulting in unstable group topologies. A widely used approach is to divide the group into peer clusters that are fully meshed among each other. In this paper, we propose an application-independent approach for a periodic maintenance of distributed cluster-based group topologies for mobile collaborative applications. The proposed approach also dynamically adapts the overlay structure to changing network conditions. The maintenance strategy can be parametrized by several metrics. It outperforms simple overlay maintenance strategies, such as round-robin, by respecting the resource and computation limitations of mobile devices. The run-time is increased by 10% in the best case compared to LEACH, and by 3 — 5% on average. We describe the approach and evaluate its performance w.r.t. different metrics.