A Distributed Protocol for Virtual Device Composition in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Karmouch, Eric; Nayak, Amiya

doi:10.1109/icc.2009.5198598

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“…We refer to QoS, such that at any instant, numerous potential compositions subsist in the environment fulfilling a task. Separating one composition from another is the QoS coupled with the particular composition [2,3].…”

Section: Autonomous Virtual Device Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Throughout these phases we consider the requirements of the virtual device concept, which consist of being aware of the user's continuously changing environment, immediately recognizing the expectations of the user, and instantiating a service with respect to the user's given circumstance. We structure a QoS function (defined in [2]) identifying the degree of match between the requirements of a user's task (including service constraints satisfying both task requirements and user preferences) and the qualities and capabilities of service composition, taking into account the current state and availability of each service taking part in the composition. We then disseminate various aspects of the QoS function into service advertisements, broker arbitration and service discovery as a means of forming the best possible virtual device at the time of need.…”

Section: Phases Of Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In our first approach [2], discovery is based on the matching of service discovery requests with cached descriptions of services, which are updated in correlation with the groupbased service discovery protocol (GSD) [16]. GSD is based on two concepts: peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements within limited vicinity and group-based selective forwarding of discovery requests.…”

Section: Phases Of Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In our previous works [2,3], we addressed the open problem of allowing for the automatic composition of devices, and the services they provide, to create dynamic service configurations. In finding more reactive and decentralized solutions to the problem, we focused on distributed virtual device composition in mobile ad hoc network environments (MANETs).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards the Autonomous Management of Virtual Devices

Karmouch

Nayak

2009

2009 IEEE Globecom Workshops

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Personal computing is experiencing a shift from conventional computer-centric approaches, where the overall user experience and quality of service is determined by the capability of a single device, towards human centric approaches forming implicit devices, also known as virtual devices or virtual appliances. Virtual devices exploit the strengths of a series of strong specific networked appliances for enhanced user experience and quality of service. In this paper we contribute towards the autonomous management of virtual devices, moving away from infrastructure based schemes with heavy user involvement to decentralized and zero touch (i.e. no user involvement) solutions. In doing so, we present the components and methodology behind a policy-driven autonomous framework for the dynamic discovery, selection, and composition of multimodal multi-device services. The framework operates in an ad hoc network setting and introduces a Service Overlay Network (SON) based definition of a virtual device.978-1-4244-5626-0/09/$26.00 ©2009 IEEE

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Section: Autonomous Virtual Device Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Phases Of Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Phases Of Compositionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards the Autonomous Management of Virtual Devices

Karmouch

Nayak

2009

2009 IEEE Globecom Workshops

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“…However, the drawback is that new devices cannot be integrated easily, as they require specific software configurations. More recent work on device composition aims at replacing centralized infrastructures by an ad-hoc peer-to-peer approach [11] or by creating a virtual or composite device. In the ad-hoc approach, devices communicate directly with each other to negotiate access to a certain resource (e.g.…”

Section: Device Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

TIDE: Lightweight Device Composition for Enhancing Tabletop Environments with Smartphone Applications

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Hincapié-Ramos

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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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Abstract.Interactive surfaces like tabletop computers provide large touchenabled displays, support novel forms of interaction and collaboration, and extend computation to new environments. However, being a novel platform, the existing application pool is limited and applications existing for other platforms have to be re-developed. At the same time, smartphones are pervasive computers that users carry around and with a large pool of applications. This paper presents TIDE, a lightweight device composition middleware to bring existing smartphone applications onto the tabletop. Through TIDE, applications running on the smartphone are displayed on the tabletop computer, and users can interact with them through the tabletop's interactive surface. TIDE contributes to the areas of device composition and tabletops by providing an OS-level middleware that is transparent to the smartphone applications, maintaining privacy by limiting content transfer between devices, and enhancing the usefulness of tabletops with already existing smartphone applications and software developers. We present the design and implementation of TIDE, the study of different interaction techniques to manipulate TIDE's interactive content, and an analysis of different research directions. Initial user feedback shows that TIDE is easy to use, learnable, and convenient for collaborative activities and private environments.

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