Routing Based on Message Attraction
Alcides Calsavara, Luiz A. P. Lima · 2010
Application-level message routing mechanisms are crucial to the development of distributed applications and infrastructures that are flexible, adaptable, context-aware and mobile. This paper proposes to use the concept of magnetic fields borrowed from physics in order to enable a self-organizing message routing mechanism. First, a generic model of virtual magnetic fields is presented, then a distributed self-stabilizing update protocol is defined and applied to the load-balancing problem in order to illustrate the employment of the theoretical concepts. Simulation results are then discussed.