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To: bukhres@cs.iupui.edu, olariu@cs.odu.edu
CC: adam@cs.caltech.edu, khare@alumni.caltech.edu
Subject: HICSS Wireless/Mobile track abstract submission
ON THE FEASABILITY OF END-SYSTEM ROUTING IN A UBIQUITOUS WIRELESS
NETWORK
authors: Rohit Khare & Adam Rifkin
for HICSS track: Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
track coordinators: Stephan Olariu, olariu@cs.odu.edu
Omran Bukhres, bukhres@cs.iupui.edu
Today, on the wired Internet, only a small percentage of intermediate
machines carry the load of internetwork routing. A ubiquitous wireless
networking infrastructure, though, suggests devolving routing
responsibility to autonomous end-systems. This paper represents a
gedankenexperiment analyzing the possibility and desirability of
decentralizing routing, naming, and accounting services to an
unprecedented degree to enable untethered computing.
These fundamental changes will also affect the 'service model', moving
away from the 'best-effort' packet-level delivery of today's Internet.
New economic and logistical constraints (i.e. ad hoc individual
adminstration, constant mobility) have implications for both the network
layer and for application protocol and middleware designers. We conclude
with deployment scenarios which could drive this research agenda
forward.
To: nikola@first.gmd.de
Subject: HICSS Web Computing track abstract submission
Cc: adam@cs.caltech.edu, khare@alumni.caltech.edu
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE HTTP
authors: Rohit Khare & Adam Rifkin
for HICSS track: Web Computing in Theory and Practice
track coordinator: Nikola Serbezija, nikola@first.gmd.de
The long and checkered history of application-layer Internet data transport
protocols -- Telnet, FTP, SMTP, NNTP, HTTP and so on -- warns that developers
should think carefully before inventing new 'TP's. Each new entrant has added
a few new features, but usually in the context of an entirely new information
system. Our survey compares the distribution algorithms, naming models,
reliability, performance and extensibility of two decades' worth of TP
development.
In particular, we argue that HTTP can and will be extended to cover more of
this space than any of its predecessors. New developments in Web
infrastructure point the way towards "push" HTTP transmissions, streaming
data, and integration with distributed object RPC systems. There is also a
synergy argument to leveraging HTTP's caching, naming, and security model. All
of these changes will drive more and more diverse applications HTTP / Web
interfaces in the near future.
--- Rohit Khare -- World Wide Web Consortium -- Technical Staff w: 617/253-5884 -- f: 617/258-5999 -- h: 617/491-5030 NE43-344, MIT LCS, 545 Tech Square, Cambridge, MA 02139