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article · IEEE Communications Magazine · 1998

Locating objects in wide-area systems

Maarten R. van Steen, Franz J. Hauck, Philip Homburg, Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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Abstract

Locating mobile objects in a worldwide system requires a scalable location service. An object can be a telephone or a notebook computer, but also a software or data object, such as a file or an electronic document. Our service strictly separates an object's name from the addresses where it can be contacted. This is done by introducing a location-independent object handle. An object's name is bound to its unique object handle, which, in turn, is mapped to the addresses where the object can be contacted. To locate an object, we need only its object handle. We present a scalable location service based on a worldwide distributed search tree that adapts dynamically to an object's migration pattern to optimize lookups and updates.

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APA 7

van Steen, M. R., Hauck, F. J., Homburg, P., & Tanenbaum, A. S. (1998). Locating objects in wide-area systems. IEEE Communications Magazine, 36(1), 104–109. https://doi.org/10.1109/35.649334

MLA 9

van Steen, Maarten R., et al. “Locating objects in wide-area systems.” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 36, no. 1, 1998, pp. 104–09, https://doi.org/10.1109/35.649334.

Chicago

van Steen, Maarten R., Franz J. Hauck, Philip Homburg, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. 1998. “Locating objects in wide-area systems.” IEEE Communications Magazine 36 (1): 104–09. https://doi.org/10.1109/35.649334.

Harvard

van Steen, M.R. et al. (1998) ‘Locating objects in wide-area systems’, IEEE Communications Magazine, 36(1), pp. 104–109. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/35.649334.

BibTeX
@article{vansteen1998locating,
  title = {{Locating objects in wide-area systems}},
  author = {van Steen, Maarten R. and Hauck, Franz J. and Homburg, Philip and Tanenbaum, Andrew S.},
  journal = {IEEE Communications Magazine},
  volume = {36},
  number = {1},
  pages = {104--109},
  year = {1998},
  doi = {10.1109/35.649334}
}

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