From Opportunistic Networks to Opportunistic Computing

被引：168

作者：

Conti, Marco

Giordano, Silvia

May, Martin

Passarella, Andrea

机构：

[1] Italian National Research Council, Ubiquitous Internet Group, IIT-CNR

[2] SUPSI, Networking Laboratory

[3] Thomson Research Laboratory, Media Delivery Research Program, Paris

来源：

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE | 2010年 / 48卷 / 09期

关键词：

This work was partially funded by the European Commission under the FP6 HAGGLE (027918) and FP7 SCAMPI (258414) Projects.In the framework of the design of the future Internet; some projects work on opportunistic networking related problems: the delay-tolerant network (DTN)-based activities; such as the European FET-SAC projects — ANA; Bionets; Haggle — the FET-PERADA SOCIALNETS project and the FIRE-N4C project; or; in the United States; some NSF NeTS FIND projects. The majority of those projects mainly aim to solve one specific issue; for example; routing or networking function composition. An exception; from this standpoint; is the groundbreaking Haggle project (http://www.haggleproject.org); funded by the European Commission under the FET SAC initiative. Haggle designed and developed solutions for communication in autonomic/opportunistic networks by studying the properties of the main networking functions; including message forwarding; security; data dissemination; and mobility models. Among projects in opportunistic networking; Haggle is the first effort toward a complete investigation that covers all the main aspects of opportunistic networking; and for this reason it has a fundamental seminal role in OC. In the following we will thus describe the key results achieved by Haggle; in view of their enabling role in the realization of the OC vision. Specifically; we focus on two main areas:;

D O I：

10.1109/MCOM.2010.5560597

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

Personal computing devices, such as smartphones and PDAs, are commonplace, bundle several wireless network interfaces, can support compute intensive tasks, and are equipped with powerful means to produce multimedia content. Thus, they provide the resources for what we envision as a human pervasive network: a network formed by user devices, suitable to convey to users rich multimedia content and services according to their interests and needs. Similar to opportunistic networks, where the communication is built on connectivity opportunities, we envisage a network above these resources that joins together features of traditional pervasive networks and opportunistic networks fostering a new computing paradigm: opportunistic computing. In this article we discuss the evolution from opportunistic networking to opportunistic computing; we survey key recent achievements in opportunistic networking, and describe the main concepts and challenges of opportunistic computing. We finally envision further possible scenarios and functionalities to make opportunistic computing a key player in the next-generation Internet.

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