AmbientTalk: Language Support for Mobile Computing

Author

Dedecker, Jessie ; Cutsem, T.V. ; Mostinckx, Stijn ; De Meuter, Wolfgang ; D´Hondt, Theo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Vrije Universiteit Brussel

fYear

2006

fDate

Sept. 2006

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

42

Abstract

An important aspect of system support for mobile computing involves alleviating the issues related to programming the underlying distributed system. Our approach to dealing with these issues is by means of programming language support. To this end, we have designed a high-level, distributed object-oriented programming language - called AmbientTalk - which has been designed specifically for mobile networks. We motivate the need for such dedicated language support based on the fundamental characteristics of mobile distributed systems. Subsequently, we describe the salient features of AmbientTalk with respect to distributed programming by means of an exemplar mobile computing application

Keywords

distributed programming; mobile computing; object-oriented languages; AmbientTalk; ambient-oriented programming; distributed object-oriented programming language; distributed programming; event-driven programming; high-level language; mobile computing; mobile distributed system; mobile network; programming language support; ubiquitous computing; Application software; Automotive materials; Computer applications; Computer languages; Distributed computing; Hardware; Mobile computing; Pervasive computing; Ubiquitous computing; Wireless communication; ambient-oriented programming; distributed programming languages; event-driven programming; mobile computing; ubiquitous computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Mobile Computing Applications, 2006. FUMCA '06. International Workshop on System Support for

Conference_Location

Orange County, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2729-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUMCA.2006.1

Filename

4021042