Secure and Dynamic Cooperation of Personal Networks in a Fednet

A personal network (PN) is a person-centric network, which creates a distributed environment of a person and provides access to personal resources and services regardless the location of the person. An extra functionality added to PNs can enable different persons to cooperate and to form a group-oriented network called a Federation of Personal Networks (Fednet). Fednet is a temporal, ad hoc, opportunity/purpose driven, secure group-oriented network where the users may be the producers and consumers of the services/content/resources. In this paper, we introduce Fednets and their architecture, explain the lifecycle and the access control process.