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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="description" qualifier="abstract" lang="en_US">In this thesis, we formally define a programming abstraction for mobile networks called the Virtual Stationary Automata programming layer, consisting of real mobile clients, virtual timed I/O automata called virtual stationary automata (VSAs), and a communication service connecting VSAs and client nodes. The VSAs are located at prespecified regions that tile the plane, defining a static virtual infrastructure. We present a theory of self-stabilizing emulation and use this theory to prove correct a self-stabilizing algorithm to emulate a timed VSA using the real mobile nodes that are currently residing in the VSA's region. We also specify two important services for mobile networks: motion coordination and end-to-end routing. We split the implementation of the end-to-end routing service into three smaller pieces, consisting of geographic routing and location management services with an end-to-end routing service built on top of them. We provide stabilizing implementations of each of these services using the VSA abstraction, and provide formal correctness analyses for each implementation.</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="description" qualifier="statementofresponsibility" lang="en_US">by Tina Ann Nolte.</dim:field>
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   	&lt;Abstract>In this thesis, we formally define a programming abstraction for mobile networks called the Virtual Stationary Automata programming layer, consisting of real mobile clients, virtual timed I/O automata called virtual stationary automata (VSAs), and a communication service connecting VSAs and client nodes. The VSAs are located at prespecified regions that tile the plane, defining a static virtual infrastructure. We present a theory of self-stabilizing emulation and use this theory to prove correct a self-stabilizing algorithm to emulate a timed VSA using the real mobile nodes that are currently residing in the VSA&amp;apos;s region. We also specify two important services for mobile networks: motion coordination and end-to-end routing. We split the implementation of the end-to-end routing service into three smaller pieces, consisting of geographic routing and location management services with an end-to-end routing service built on top of them. We provide stabilizing implementations of each of these services using the VSA abstraction, and provide formal correctness analyses for each implementation.&lt;/Abstract>
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