Experiments in designing computational economies for mobile users

摘要

Distributed operating systems provide users with transparentaccess to network-wide resources. As changes occur to networkresources, or as user locations and preferences evolve, the systemmust be able to adapt by reallocating, replicating, or moving itsresources. We explore a market-based approach to resource allocationin such environments, and describe initial experiments in designingand building computational markets for distributed operating systemresources. We focus on the problem of redistributing network fileallocations for a mobile user population in order to improve localityand accessibility.