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--- uf:totam [2010/01/21 20:29] – elisag
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 ===== Tuples on the Ambient (TOTAM) =====
-TOTAM is a communication abstraction to enable pervasive social interactivity: it make possible that flockrs can communicate with each other without being connected at the same time while maintaining privacy and limited network traffic.
+TOTAM is an extension to the TOTA tuple space model which introduces a scoping mechanism to delimit the physical transportation of tuples.
-The basic communications API of the framework provides means to address and communicate with individual flockrs by means of remote objects references.
-However, communicating with a large amount of flockrs in this fashion does not scale (as it would require to manually manage a group of remote references whose composition change often).
-Instead, we have designed a dedicated communication abstraction for flock communication called //TOTAM//.
-==== Design ====
+==== Motivation ====
 The original idea was to build a framework similar to [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.19.9742|TOTA]] to be able to exchange and percolate guanotes. TOTA is one of the most dynamic tuple-based solutions for coordination in mobile networks. It relies on tuples which hop from location to location to coordinate distributed application nodes. Rather than merging local tuple spaces upon network connection as other tuple-based approaches like LIME, tuples themselves decide how to propagate from a tuple space to another. This means that tuples are injected in the network and can autonomously propagate according to application-specific propagation rules expressed in the tuples themselves.