Tiamat: Generative Communication in a Changing World.
Gareth P. McSorley, Huw Evans · 2003
Providing infrastructural support for pervasive computing environments is difficult due to their ever changing, resource-limited nature. In such environments, generative communications would be of benefit due to the decoupling the paradigm offers. This paper introduces Tiamat, a system which provides a coordination infrastructure for applications in pervasive environments based on generative communications. The Tiamat model maps naturally onto the key characteristics of a pervasive environment and provides a flexible infrastructure, through the use of opportunistic logical tuple spaces, as well as a fine-grained resource management mechanism, via its leasing model. The Tiamat model is presented along with an overview of the current implementation. A set of challenges which must be faced when developing infrastructure for pervasive environments is presented. Future extensions to Tiamat to meet some of these challenges are also described. 1