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Mobile Streams: A Middleware for Reconfigurable Distributed Scripting

Published

Author(s)

Mudumbai Ranganathan, V Schaal, V Galtier, Douglas C. Montgomery

Abstract

A large class of distributed applications follow the event-driven or reactive paradigm. Such applications can benefit from Mobile Agent technology by making it easy to add re-configurability, extensibility, and failure resilience features at an application level. We present the design of a middleware for building reactive, extensible, reconfigurable distributed systems, based upon an abstraction we call Mobile Streams. Using our system, a distributed, event-driven application can be scripted from a single point of control and dynamically extended and re-configured while it is in execution. Our system is suitable for building a wide variety of applications; for example distributed test, conferencing and control- oriented applications. We illustrate the use of our system by presenting example applications.
Citation
ASA/MA
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

distributed scripting, distributed systems, mobile agents, networking
Information technology and Networking

Citation

Ranganathan, M. , Schaal, V. , Galtier, V. and Montgomery, D. (1999), Mobile Streams: A Middleware for Reconfigurable Distributed Scripting, ASA/MA (Accessed October 7, 2025)

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Created October 4, 1999, Updated February 19, 2017
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