CASCADAS – Autonomic communication and situated pervasive services
Borbála Katalin Benkő, Tamás Katona, Róbert Schulcz
Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Department of Telecommunications
{bbenko,tkatona,schulcz}@hit.bme.hu
CASCADAS is one of the four 6th Framework IST-FET projects that aim at providing both theoretical and practical background for a new generation of complex, distributed, pervasive services.
The basic building block of the situation-aware, self-organizing, autonomic communication based network is a common abstraction called ACE (Autonomic Communication Element). ACEs provide and use services, adapt to the situation, create and manage plans, build up knowledge networks, and move and self-organize based on their own autonomic decisions. In CASCADAS, we plan not to categorically rely on the available Layer3 facilities so that to enable the possibility of emerging new-generation protocols/technologies such as utilizing the physical proximity or CPNs.
The basic building block of the situation-aware, self-organizing, autonomic communication based network is a common abstraction called ACE (Autonomic Communication Element). ACEs provide and use services, adapt to the situation, create and manage plans, build up knowledge networks, and move and self-organize based on their own autonomic decisions. In CASCADAS, we plan not to categorically rely on the available Layer3 facilities so that to enable the possibility of emerging new-generation protocols/technologies such as utilizing the physical proximity or CPNs.