A distributed model for digital personal environments management

  • Authors:
  • José A. Lozano;Juan M. González;Álvaro Rodríguez;Declan O'Sullivan;Dave Lewis

  • Affiliations:
  • Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Madrid, Spain;Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain;Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland;Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • MUCS '09 Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Managing ubiquitous communications and services
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Digital Personal Environments (DPE) infrastructure is far from traditional end users' devices and its associated management is a big challenge for both Service Providers and Users. Due to the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of DPE, centralized management paradigms are no longer valid. This paper presents a new distributed paradigm that is based on Autonomic Communications principles and concepts to build self-managed environments. Semantic technologies are the cornerstone for the self-management paradigm. So as to effectively control DPEs, methods of governance must also be provided. Policies provide a high level language for users that can realize such governance. A proof of concept shows the feasibility of the new paradigmalthough some aspects need to be further developed, related for instance tothe lack of standardization and agreement in the industry.