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EPSRC Reference:	GR/K11864/01
Title:	SUPPORTING REACTIVE SERVICES IN A MOBILE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
Principal Investigator:	Blair, Professor G
Other Investigators:	Davies, Professor N
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Department:	Computing & Communications
Organisation:	Lancaster University
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 January 1995	Ends:	30 September 1998	Value (£):	104,733
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Networks & Distributed Systems
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Future computer environments will include mobile computers which will either be disconnected, weakly inter-connected by low speed wireless networks such as GSM, or fully inter-connected by high speed networks ranging from Ethernet to ATM. The main aim of the proposed project is to investigate the development of distributed services which can exploit the differing level of connectivity a mobile computer may experience. The research is motivated by findings from the industrially oriented MOST project at Lancaster which is investigating the potential of mobile computing in the utilities industries. In more detail, the research will focus on two complementary areas: 1. quality of service managed bindings to provide feedback on the level of services offered by the current network, and 2. the novel concept of reactive services which exploit this level of connectivity. The research is important as current solutions to distributed services tend to have built in assumptions about the level of connectivity provided by the underlying network and hence are not suitable for the type of environment described above. The research builds directly on the results and experimental infrastructure from MOST; the project also takes significant input from the QOS-A and Sumo projects at Lancaster and, via an informal collaboration, the JetFile Project at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.
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