The Anhinga Project

<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH=100% BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC"> <TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="center"> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC"> <TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="center"> <FONT SIZE="-1"> <B>The Anhinga Project</B> </FONT> </TD> <TD WIDTH=10> </TD> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="center"> <FONT SIZE="-2"> Department of Computer Science </FONT> </TD> <TD WIDTH=10> </TD> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="center"> <FONT SIZE="-2"> Rochester Institute of Technology </FONT> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="center"> <FONT SIZE="-1"> <A HREF="http://www.cs.rit.edu/~anhinga/" TARGET="_top">Home Page</A> </FONT> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <A HREF="anhinga.shtml" TARGET="main"><IMG SRC="Images/smallanhinga.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT="What's an anhinga?"></A> <H1>The Anhinga Project</H1> Information Technology Laboratory <BR>Rochester Institute of Technology <P> The Anhinga Project is developing the Anhinga Infrastructure, a new distributed computing infrastructure designed specifically to support many-to-many distributed applications running on ad hoc networks of small mobile wireless devices. <P> Mobile wireless computing devices such as cellphones, pagers, personal digital assistants, pocket PCs, and tablet computers are all potential platforms for participating in small group, wireless, many-to-many distributed applications. The networking technology needed to support such applications is readily available. However, almost all existing middleware infrastructure for distributed applications was designed for central servers and wired connections. <P> The Anhinga Infrastructure runs entirely on the wireless mobile devices and so does not require any central server support. The Anhinga Infrastructure provides a message broadcast ad hoc networking protocol and a distributed computing platform based on lightweight versions of Java, Jini Network Technology, and tuple spaces. <FONT SIZE="-1"> <P> <HR> <B>General Information</B> <BR> <A HREF="intro.shtml">Overview</A> <BR> <A HREF="whatsnew.shtml">What's New</A> <BR> <A HREF="people/people.html">People</A> <BR> <A HREF="mailto:anhinga@cs.rit.edu">Contact Us</A> <HR> <B>Repository</B> <BR> <A HREF="presentations/presentations.html">Presentations</A> <BR> <A HREF="publications/publications.html">Publications</A> <BR> <A HREF="whitepapers/whitepapers.html">White Papers</A> <BR> <A HREF="publications/halfbaked.html">Halfbaked</A> <BR> <A HREF="topics/topics.html">Research Topics</A> <BR> <A HREF="references.html">References</A> <BR> <A HREF="downloads/downloads.html">Downloads</A> <HR> <B>Technology</B> <BR> <A HREF="pmrmi.html">Poor Mans RMI</A> <BR> <A HREF="m2mp.html">Many-to-Many Protocol</A> <BR> <A HREF="rcl.html">RIT Classfile Library</A> <HR> <B>Email Discussion List</B> <BR>for Jini Community members <BR> <A HREF="http://developer.jini.org/cgi-bin/subscribeform">Subscribe</A> <BR> <A HREF="mailto:anhinga@www.jini.org">Send a message</A> <BR> <A HREF="http://developer.jini.org/cgi-bin/wilma/anhinga">Archives</A> <HR> <B>Related Sites</B> <BR> <A HREF="http://www.rit.edu/">RIT</A> <BR> <A HREF="http://itlab.rit.edu/">IT Lab</A> <BR> <A HREF="http://www.cs.rit.edu/">Computer Science</A> </FONT> <P> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH=100% BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC"> <TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="center"> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC"> <TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="center"> <FONT SIZE="-1"> <B>The Anhinga Project</B> </FONT> </TD> <TD WIDTH=10> </TD> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="center"> <FONT SIZE="-2"> Department of Computer Science </FONT> </TD> <TD WIDTH=10> </TD> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="center"> <FONT SIZE="-2"> Rochester Institute of Technology </FONT> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="center"> <FONT SIZE="-1"> <A HREF="http://www.cs.rit.edu/~anhinga/" TARGET="_top">Home Page</A> </FONT> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <FONT SIZE="-2"> Copyright © 2001 Rochester Institute of Technology. All rights reserved. Last updated 20-Nov-2002. Please send comments to <A HREF="mailto:anhinga@cs.rit.edu">anhinga@cs.rit.edu</A>. </FONT>