Physicalnet: A Generic Framework for Managing and Programming Across Pervasive Computing Networks

This paper describes the design and implementation of a pervasive computing framework, named Physicalnet. Essentially, Physicalnet is a generic paradigm for managing and programming world-wide distributed heterogeneous sensor and actuator resources in a multi-user and multi-network environment. Using a four-tier light-weight service oriented architecture, Physicalnet enables global uniform access to heterogeneous resources and decouples applications from particular resources, locations and networks. Through a negotiator module, it allows a large number of applications to concurrently execute on the same resources and to span multiple physical networks and logical administrative domains. By providing a fine-grained usebased access rights control and conflict resolution mechanism, Physicalnet not only ensures owners having total control of sharing and protecting their resources, but also dramatically increases the number of applications that can concurrently execute on the devices. Fu...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: RTAS
• Authors: Pascal Vicaire, Zhiheng Xie, Enamul Hoque, John A. Stankovic
• Keywords: Access Rights, Dynamic Location-aware Mobility, Embedded Systems, Resource, RTAS 2010