%T An Investigation into Distributed Channel Mobility Support for Communicating Process Architectures
%A  Kevin Chalmers,  Jon Kerridge
%E Peter H. Welch,  Herman Roebbers,  Jan F. Broenink,  Frederick R. M. Barnes,  Carl G. Ritson,  Adam T. Sampson,  G. S. Stiles,  Brian Vinter
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2009
%X Localised mobile channel support is now a feature of
   Communicating
Process Architecture (CPA) based frameworks,
   from JCSP and C++CSP to
occam\-pi. Distributed mobile
   channel support has also been attempted
in JCSP Networking
   and occam\-pi via the pony framework, although
   the
capabilities of these two separate approaches is limited
   and has not
led to the widespread usage of distributed
   mobile channel primitives.
In this paper, an initial
   investigation into possible models that can
support
   distributed channel mobility are presented and analysed
   for
features such as transmission time, robustness and
   reachability. The
goal of this work is to discover a set of
   models which can be used for
channel mobility and also
   supported within the single unified protocol
for distributed
   CPA frameworks.  From the analysis presented in this
paper,
   it has been determined that there are models which can
   be
implemented to support channel end mobility within a
   single unified
protocol which provide suitable capabilities
   for certain application
scenarios.