Data Management in Interimistic Environments.
Abheek Anand and Sudarshan S. Chawathe.
In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on
E-Business (WeB), Washington, D.C., December 2004.
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Citation.
We address the problem of managing information in an interimistic environment following a disruptive event that results in widespread failures of computers, networks, and other resources. We motivate the problem and discuss the design requirements. As a concrete example of such information management, we present our work on data dissemination in an interimistic environment in which both network membership and data characteristics are subject to continual change. Our methods use low-overhead protocols to determine a suitable method for routing a stream of data. We also present a brief experimental evaluation of our methods.