Ambient-Oriented Programming

This page provides an overview of the various posters related to Ambient-Oriented Programming. A pdf version of each poster is available, together with a brief abstract describing it.

Title Ambient References: Addressing Objects in Mobile Networks

Author Tom Van Cutsem

Abstract A significant body of research in ubiquitous computing deals with mobile networks, i.e. networks of mobile devices interconnected by wireless communication links. Due to the very nature of such mobile networks, addressing and communicating with remote objects is significantly more difficult than in their fixed counterparts. This poster describes ambient references, a novel remote object referencing abstraction in the context of such mobile networks. Remote object references are one of the most fundamental programming abstractions of any distributed object-oriented programming language. The poster describes why novel referencing abstractions are needed and describes the benefits of ambient references over classic remote object references in mobile networks.

On display at ECOOP 2006