Dynamic adaptable overlay networks for personalised service delivery
conference paper
Overlay Networks have been designed as a promising solution to deliver new services via the use of intermediate nodes, acting as proxies or relays. This concept enables to hide the heterogeneity and variability of the underlying networks. In the Ambient Networks (ANs) project, the objectives are to study the composition and decomposition of services, the multi-radio interfaces, the user and network mobility and all the features that should address the networks dynamic, variability, change and so on. In this project, the concept of overlay networks has been selected as the means to deliver services, that should be adapted to end-users' context, regarding the access network, the location, the used device and the user's preferences. Obviously, since ANs are very dynamic, variable, the overlay network should be adaptable to fit the new environment. In this paper we present the architecture of this overlay network as well as the dynamic and secure deployment mechanisms which aim at improving the delivery of adapted services. The overlay network being created upon service providers request, an interface allowing this creation request and further configuration requests has been defined and is presented in this paper, the so-called Ambient Service Interface (ASI). Finally to prove the interest of our solution, an implementation of an IPTV services use-case is escribed.
TNO Identifier
431193
Source title
1st Ambient Networks Workshop on Mobility, Multiaccess, and Network Management, M2NM 2007, at IEEE 7th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2007, 16-19 October 2007, Sydney, Australia
Pages
1-6
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