Ambient references

Tom Van Cutsem, Jessie Dedecker, Stijn Mostinckx, Elisa Gonzalez, Theo D'Hondt, Wolfgang De Meuter
2006 Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications - OOPSLA '06  
A significant body of research in ubiquitous computing deals with mobile networks, i.e. networks of mobile devices interconnected by wireless communication links. Due to the very nature of such mobile networks, addressing and communicating with remote objects is significantly more difficult than in their fixed counterparts. This paper reconsiders the remote object reference concept -one of the most fundamental programming abstractions of distributed programming languages -in the context of
more » ... e networks. We describe four desirable characteristics of remote references in mobile networks, show how existing remote object references fail to exhibit them, and subsequently propose ambient references: remote object references designed for mobile networks.
doi:10.1145/1176617.1176757 dblp:conf/oopsla/CutsemDMGDM06 fatcat:q4qrtijijjbsjktzhrtoypje6m