Snap: a Local, Asynchronous Interaction Framework for Pervasive Applications

OF THE THESIS Snap: A Local, Asynchronous Interaction Framework For Pervasive Applications by Venkatesh Putty Thesis Director: Professor Manish Parashar Evolution in our computing needs has seen evolution in all spheres of computing with advances in device technology and the software infrastructure driving these systems. The road ahead is through frameworks that aid us in comprehending, developing applications for and managing this wide-ranging evolution resulting in pervasive computing. But, pervasive applications differ significantly enough from traditional distributed computing, to warrant thought on suitable distributed computing interaction primitives. This thesis presents an interaction framework for such applications that do not need transactional properties in interactions and can function with minimal guarantees. The framework offers an interaction protocol that is used for effecting asynchronous local actions and uses a decentralized consistency maintenance mechanism to reconcile system inconsistencies.This thesis presents scenarios where applications can use the interaction protocol and thus adapt better to pervasive environments.