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Context-adaptive and energy-efficient mobile transaction management in pervasive environments

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Pervasive computing is a user-centric, scalable, parallel, and distributed computing paradigm, allowing users to access to their preferred services even while moving around. Transaction management for pervasive environments has to provide mobile users with reliable and transparent services anytime anywhere. To make such a vision a reality, the communication of pervasive transaction processing should be context-aware for adapting to dynamically changing execution environments, and energy-efficient for prolonging the lifetime of battery-powered mobile devices. In this paper, we propose a context model and a context-aware transaction model for pervasive transactions, and present a \(\underline{\mathrm{c}}\) ontext-adaptive and \(\underline{\mathrm{e}}\) nergy-efficient \(\underline{\mathrm{t}}\) ransaction \(\underline{\mathrm{m}}\) anagement mechanism (CETM) that can dynamically adjust transaction execution behaviors in terms of current context information. Moreover, we model and verify the correctness of the CETM through Petri nets. The simulation results have demonstrated that our transaction management mechanism CETM can significantly reduce the failed probability of concurrent pervasive transactions.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Feilong Tang & Minglu Li

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, 965-8580, Japan

    Feilong Tang

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Tang, F., Li, M. Context-adaptive and energy-efficient mobile transaction management in pervasive environments. J Supercomput 60, 62–86 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-009-0277-6

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