Footloose: A Case for Physical Eventual Consistency and Selective Conflict Resolution

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“Footloose: A Case for Physical Eventual Consistency and Selective Conflict Resolution” by Justin Mazzola Paluska, David Saff, Tom Yeh, and Kathryn Chen. In 5th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, (Monterey, CA, USA), October 9-10, 2003, pp. 170-180.

Abstract

Users are increasingly inundated with small devices with communication and storage capabilities. Unfortunately, the user is still responsible for reconciling all of the devices whenever a change is made. We present Footloose, a user-centered data store that can share data and reconcile conflicts across diverse devices. Footloose is an optimistic system based on physical eventual consistency — consistency based on the movement of devices — and selective conflict resolution — which allows conflicts to flow through devices that cannot resolve the conflict to devices that can. Using these techniques, Footloose can present consistent views of data on the devices closest to the user without user interaction.

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BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{PaluskaSYC2003,
   author = {Justin Mazzola Paluska and David Saff and Tom Yeh and Kathryn
	Chen},
   title = {Footloose: A Case for Physical Eventual Consistency and
	Selective Conflict Resolution},
   booktitle = {5th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and
	Applications},
   pages = {170--180},
   address = {Monterey, CA, USA},
   month = {October~9--10,},
   year = {2003}
}

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