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Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) present a challenging area for application development. The combination of mobile nodes and wireless communication can create highly dynamic networks with frequent disconnections and unpredictable availability. Several language paradigms have been applied to MANETs, but there has been no quantitative comparison of alternative approaches. This paper presents the first quantitative evaluation of three common communication paradigms (publish/subscribe, RPC, and tuple spaces) compared within realistic MANET environments using real applications. We investigate the application-level performance of the paradigms and present a summary of their relative strengths and weaknesses. We also demonstrate the impact of wireless and mobility on application-level metrics, the most dramatic being delivery rates dropping to nearly 25% and round trip times increasing up to 2000% in a mobile scenario.
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Collins, J., Bagrodia, R. (2012). A Quantitative Comparison of Communication Paradigms for MANETs. In: Sénac, P., Ott, M., Seneviratne, A. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. MobiQuitous 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29154-8_22
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