MOCKETS: A NOVEL MESSAGE-ORIENTED COMMUNICATIONS MIDDLEWARE FOR THE WIRELESS INTERNET

Mauro Tortonesi, Niranjan Suri, Cesare Stefanelli, Marco Arguedas, Maggie Breedy

2006

Abstract

Wireless networking is becoming increasingly important for ubiquitous access to the Internet and the Web. However, wireless networks exhibit significant reliability and performance problems, with frequent disconnections, congestions, and packet losses. For these reasons, the traditional TCP/IP suite, designed for wired networks, offers poor performance and inadequate communication semantics in this scenario. There are several research efforts in both protocols and communication infrastructures aimed at producing solutions better suited to wireless network characteristics. This paper presents Mockets, a novel communications middleware specifically designed for wireless networking scenarios. The Mockets middleware permits a communication endpoint to be moved from one node to another without interrupting the communication session. In addition, Mockets provides several delivery services with different communication semantics, semantic classification of data, cancellation/replacement of enqueued data, and priority/lifetime assignment to messages. Initial experimental results in a wireless network scenario show that the Mockets middleware achieves better performance levels than traditional TCP-based infrastructure.

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Tortonesi M., Suri N., Stefanelli C., Arguedas M. and Breedy M. (2006). MOCKETS: A NOVEL MESSAGE-ORIENTED COMMUNICATIONS MIDDLEWARE FOR THE WIRELESS INTERNET . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-65-8, pages 258-268. DOI: 10.5220/0002092702580268


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@conference{winsys06,
author={Mauro Tortonesi and Niranjan Suri and Cesare Stefanelli and Marco Arguedas and Maggie Breedy},
title={MOCKETS: A NOVEL MESSAGE-ORIENTED COMMUNICATIONS MIDDLEWARE FOR THE WIRELESS INTERNET},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={258-268},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002092702580268},
isbn={978-972-8865-65-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2006)
TI - MOCKETS: A NOVEL MESSAGE-ORIENTED COMMUNICATIONS MIDDLEWARE FOR THE WIRELESS INTERNET
SN - 978-972-8865-65-8
AU - Tortonesi M.
AU - Suri N.
AU - Stefanelli C.
AU - Arguedas M.
AU - Breedy M.
PY - 2006
SP - 258
EP - 268
DO - 10.5220/0002092702580268