MONET Special Issue on Foundations of Mobile Computing

摘要

This special issue of MONET is devoted to algorithmic foundations of mobile computing. Mobile computing and communication devices will have an enormous impact on our lifestyle over the next several decades. The mobility of distributed computing components raises a number of interesting, and difficult, algorithmic issues. Some of these questions were considered at the 2003 DIALM-POMC workshop, which was the genesis of this special issue. The theme of the workshop was the application of discrete algorithms and methods in the context of mobile and wireless computing and communications. This workshop was the merging of two workshops: (1) DIAL-M (Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications), which was held annually in 1997-2002 as a workshop in conjunction with ACM MOBICOM; and (2) POMC (Principles of Mobile Computing), which was held in 2001 in conjunction with the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), and in 2002 in conjunction with the International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC). DIALM-POMC 2003 was sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE in cooperation with ACM SIGACT, with financial support from the National Science Foundation and the Consortium for Embedded and Internetworking Technologies (CEINT).