Policy-based cooperation of services in ubiquitous environments

Author

Tonouchi, Toshio ; Igakura, Tomohiro ; Maeda, Naoto ; Beppu, Yasuyuki ; Kiriha, Yoshiaki

fYear

2003

fDate

24-28 March 2003

Firstpage

139

Lastpage

142

Abstract

Various kinds of nodes, including cellular telephones and information appliances, are to become popular and are expected to provide a variety of services. Cooperation of these services will result in more convenient services than keeping them isolated would. A ubiquitous network is characterized by changeable system configurations. Because of this and the fact that a node is so frequently connected to and disconnected from the network, the global cooperation of services is difficult to describe in flow languages such as Web Services Flow Language (WSFL). One of the solutions to this problem is a policy technology. A policy attached to a node can be added or removed when the node is connected or disconnected. The policies can re-configure a changed system.

Keywords

cellular radio; computer network management; configuration management; ubiquitous computing; wireless LAN; cellular telephones; changeable system configurations; clusters; grid computing management; information appliances; message-oriented system; peer-to-peer applications; policy-based cooperation; re-configuration; service cooperation; ubiquitous computing; ubiquitous network; Cellular phones; Computer architecture; Environmental management; Grid computing; Home appliances; Intelligent networks; National electric code; Peer to peer computing; Personal digital assistants; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Network Management, 2003. IFIP/IEEE Eighth International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

1-4020-7418-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INM.2003.1194174

Filename

1194174