Nomadic Service Assignment.
Authors:
Edward Bortnikov,
Israel Cidon,
and Idit Keidar.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) 6:8,
pages 915-928, August 2007.
Previous version, entitled
Nomadic Service Points,
in
IEEE INFOCOM 2006, April 2006.
Abstract:
We consider the novel problem of dynamically assigning application
sessions of mobile users or user groups to service points. Such
assignments must balance the tradeoff between two conflicting
goals. On the one hand, we would like to connect a user to the closest
server, in order to reduce network costs and service latencies. On the
other hand, we would like to minimize the number of costly session
migrations, or handoffs, between service points. We tackle this
problem using two methodologies. First, we employ algorithmic online
optimization to obtain algorithms whose worst-case performance is
within a factor of the optimal. Next, we extend them with
opportunistic versions that achieve excellent practical average
performance and scalability. We conduct case studies of two settings
where such algorithms are required: wireless mesh networks with mobile
users, and wide-area groupware applications with or without mobility.
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