Did some background research into Grid computing and began examining the code for the Mobile Computational System.
Continued with the background research and read a couple of articles about Grid computing and mobile computations.
Began working on the website, providing a general introduction to my specific research project.
Added information about myself to the Researchers section of the website.
Examined an ACM article about the TERRA virtual machine. Found a tutorial pertaining to the creation of sockets in C.
Did some research into the Aglets mobile agent toolkit and wrote information about it to include in the final research paper for this semester.
Started looking at Dr. Pulimood's dissertation document regarding the Mobile Computational System. Began looking at Chapter 2 of the dissertation, which deals with the communication model.
Continued looking at Dr. Pulimood's dissertation document, began thinking about the details of how the communication model for the Mobile Computational System should be designed.
Began writing first draft of research paper for this semester. Continued to examine sources pertaining to mobile agent toolkits.
Continued working on research paper, added more to state of the art section. Researched information about NOMADS mobile agent toolkit and Tracy Mobile Toolkit.
Continued working on the research paper: added information to the analysis section.
Completed rough draft of my practicum poster presentation for the Computer Science department. Added more to the design section of the research paper.
Completed final preparation for my poster presentation, completed the design section of the research paper.
Presented my practicum poster presentation to students and staff in the Computer Science department.
Submitted final copy of research paper for this semester. Posted a list of all sources examined and a PDF file containing the content of my practicum poster presentation.
Our combined research paper was accepted to an ACMSE conference in Florida. Created a timeline for the work for the Spring 2006 semester with milestones for the research paper and the project itself.
Looked up airfare and hotel information for the ACMSE conference.
Did a little more background research investigating sockets in C. Found a simple client/server program which provided the groundwork for implementation of the "move" function in mobCompMgr.c.
Began implementation of the "move" function.
Continued implementation of the "move" function. Made some modifications to the client code, which is located in mobCompMgr.c.
Created mobCompServer.c, which contains the server code. Discussed some errors/problems that occured when testing the client and server code.
Corrected the problems that occured and completed work on the "move" aspect of the project. Briefly discussed message passing, which is the next phase of my portion of the project.
Examined my research paper to refresh my memory about the implementation plan for the message passing aspect of the project.
Started implementation of the message passing part of the project.