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We introduce an object-oriented referencing abstraction to express coordination between objects hosted on mobile devices interconnected by a wireless ad hoc network. On the one hand, we notice that the most popular communication paradigms for mobile ad hoc networks, such as publish/subscribe and tuple space architectures, promote loose coupling of collaborating participants. On the other hand, the paradigm in which many applications are developed is object-oriented, and traditional object referencing abstractions typically lack the beneficial loose coupling properties of aforementioned paradigms. This paper proposes to close the paradigmatic gap between an object-oriented language and its distributed communication infrastructure by introducing ambient references: loosely-coupled remote object references designed for mobile ad hoc networks.
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Van Cutsem, T., Dedecker, J., De Meuter, W. (2007). Object-Oriented Coordination in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In: Murphy, A.L., Vitek, J. (eds) Coordination Models and Languages. COORDINATION 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4467. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72794-1_13
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