Invited Talk: Appliance Defined Ubiquitous Network

Many devices are expected to be networked with wireless appliances such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and wireless sensors, and the number of networked wireless appliances will greatly exceed the number of PCs and mobile telephones . This may lead to an essential change in the network architecture. This paper proposes a new network architecture called the appliance defined ubiquitous network (ADUN), in which wireless appliances will be networked without network protocol standards. Wireless space information rather than an individual appliance signal is carried over the ADUN in the form of a stream with strong privacy/security control. It should be noted that this is different from the architectural principles of the Internet. We discuss a network-appliance interface that is sustainable over a long term, and show that the overhead of the ADUN will be within the scope of the broadband network in the near future.