Towards group communication for mobile participants.
René Meier, Vinny Cahill · Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology) · 2001
Group communication will undoubtedly be a useful paradigm for many applications of wireless networking in which reliability and timeliness are requirements.Moreover, locationawareness is clearly central to mobile applications such as traÆc management and smart spaces.In this paper, we introduce our de nition of proximity groups in which group membership depends on location and then discuss some requirements for a group membership management service suitable for proximity groups.We describe a novel approach to eÆcient coverage estimation, giving applications feedback on the proportion of the area of interest covered by a proximity group, and also discuss our approach to partition anticipation.