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dc.thesis.supervisorRanasinghe, D.N.-
dc.contributor.authorWeerasooriya, W.A.A.C.P.-
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-13T07:20:06Z-
dc.date.available2016-09-13T07:20:06Z-
dc.date.issued2016-09-13-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3707-
dc.description.abstractOpportunisticnetworksaretypeofmobilead-hocnetwork.Buttheyaredi erent from atypicalmobilead-hocnetwork.Becausethenodesintheopportunistic networksaremostlycomposedofhand-heldcommunicationdevicesandthosede- vices arecarriedbyhumans.Sincethenodebehaviorisdi erentfromtraditional mobile ad-hocnetworks,traditionalroutingmechanismsthatareusedinmobile ad-hocnetworkshavepoorperformancesinopportunisticnetworksandtheyarere- quired touseopportunisticpropertiesofthenetworktohavebetterperformances. Although therearelargenumberofliteraturewhichdiscussroutingstrategiesin opportunisticnetworks,itisverydi cultto ndatleastasingleworkwhichfo- cuses onpersistentsharedstoragemechanisminopportunisticnetworks.Inthis workwefocustoestablishsuchopportunisticpersistentdatastorage.Traditional distributed sharedmemoryabstractionslikeregisterscanbeusedasasolutionfor this withmodi cations.Inoursolutionwehaveusedregisterimplementationswith the quorumsystem.Duetothenatureofthenodes'mobility,traditionalquorum system introduceslongdelaysforread-writeregisteroperations.Thenecessityfor the consistencyinthequorumsystemisnotthemajorityofthenodes.Ifwecan maintainanintersectionbetweeneachread-writequorumwecaneasilyhavethe consistency inthequorumsystem.Weintroduceanovelmechanismtomaintain the intersectionbetweeneachread-writequorumwithoutperformingoperationsto the majority.Whensendingread/writemessagestheyaresenttothenodeswhich havethehigherdegreecentralityvalues.Theneventhoughwehavewrittenonly to fewernodes,thesubsequentoperationwill ndenoughintersectionswiththe currentoperation.Wehaveshowntheperformanceofournovelsolutionandit reduces thetimetakentooperationswhilemaintainingtheconsistency.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectOpportunistic networksen_US
dc.subjectShared persistent spaceen_US
dc.subjectquorum systemen_US
dc.subjectRead/write registesen_US
dc.subjectSocial network propertiesen_US
dc.titleOpportunistic Persistent Data Storageen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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