Conductor by Mark D. Yarvis, Gerald J. Popek, Peter Reiher

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"Conductor: Distributed Adaptation for Heterogeneous Networks describes a new approach to graceful degradation in the face of network heterogeneity - distributed adaptation - in which adaptive code is deployed at multiple points within a network. The feasibility of this approach is demonstrated by conductor; a middleware framework that enables distributed adaptation of connection-oriented, application-level protocols. By adapting protocols, conductor provides application-transparent adaptation, supporting both existing applications and applications designed with adaptation in mind." Conductor: Distributed Adaptation for Heterogeneous Networks is designed to meet the need of a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry and graduate level students in Computer Science.

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The authors (one from Intel Labs and the others for the U. of California at Los Angeles) describe a framework (Conductor) for distributed adaptation of connection-oriented, application-level protocols. Allowing for graceful degradation of applications in heterogeneous networks, the framework is based on the notion of semantic segmentation, which maintains exactly-once delivery of the semantic elements of a data stream while allowing the data stream to be arbitrarily adapted in transit. It also incorporates an architecture for the automatic selection of adaptors that protects data from unauthorized adaptation without the use of a ubiquitous authentication mechanism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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