Second USENIX Symposium on Mobile and
Location-Independent Computing Proceedings
April 10-11, 1995
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Monday, April 10, 1995
Keynote Address:
Barry M. Leiner, Senior Scientist, Advanced Research Projects Agency
CONNECTIVITY
Session Chair: Phil Karn
Cluster-based Approach for Routing
in Ad-Hoc Networks
P. Krishna, M. Chatterjee, N. H. Vaidya, and D. K. Pradhan,
Texas A&M University.
Handoff and System Support for
Indirect TCP/IP
Ajay Bakre and B.R. Badrinath, Rutgers University.
Wireless Adapter Architecture for
Mobile Computing
John Trotter and Mark Cravatts, AT&T Bell Laboratories,
SIMULATION, EMULATION, AND ADAPTATION
Session Chair: Dan Geer
- MCE: An Integrated Mobile Computing
Environment and Simulation Testbed
- Ramki Rajagopalan, Bell Northern Research;
Sridhar Alagar and S. Venkatesan, The University of Texas at Dallas.
- A Network Emulator to Support the
Development of Adaptive Applications
- Nigel Davies, Gordon S. Blair, Keith Cheverst and Adrian Friday,
Lancaster University.
- A Programming Interface for Application-Aware
Adaptation in Mobile Computing
- Brian D. Noble, Morgan Price, and M. Satyanarayanan
Carnegie Mellon University.
Tuesday, April 11, 1995
DISCONNECTIVITY
Session Chair: Dan Duchamp
- System Isolation and Network Fast-Fail
Capability in Solaris
- Gabriel Montenegro and Steve Drach, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- A Generic Multicast Transport Service to
Support Disconnected Operation
- Silvano Maffeis, Walter Bischofberger, and Kai-Uwe Mätzel,
Cornell University and UBILAB, Union Bank of Switzerland.
- Partially Connected Operation
- L.B. Huston and P. Honeyman, University of Michigan.
ENERGY AND MOBILITY
Session Chair: Jim Kempf
- A Distributed Software Architecture
for GPS-Driven Mobile Applications
- Thomas G. Dennehy, Environmental Research Institute of Michigan.
- Energy Efficient Data Filtering and
Communication in Mobile Wireless Computing
- Tomasz Imielinski, Monish Gupta, and Sarma Peyyeti,
Rutgers University.
- Adaptive Disk Spin-down Policies for
Mobile Computers
- Fred Douglis, AT&T Bell Laboratories; P. Krishnan, Brown University;
Brian Bershad, University of Washington.
Program Committee