Coordination Middleware Supporting Rapid Development of Ad Hoc Mobile
Applications

Radu Handorean
Jamie J. Payton
Christine Julien
Gruia-Catalin Roman

This paper addresses the design and implementation of thin coordination
veneers for use in the development of applications over ad hoc wireless
networks.  A coordination veneer is defined as an adaptation layer that
customizes a general-purpose coordination middleware to a particular domain
with minimal development effort.  This technique allows developers to build
highly-tailored coordination models while leveraging established models and
middleware.  We present three such veneers, the coordination models they
embody, and the manner in which they were implemented.  The LIME middleware,
which supplies tuple space based coordination in the ad hoc environment,
serves as the implementation base for our veneers.  These veneers cover
diverse areas in ad hoc mobility: service discovery and provision, event
registration and distribution, and secure tuple space access.