A Policy-Based Approach for Managing Ubiquitous Networks in Urban Spaces

— Modern cities are becoming increasingly networked Network Operator and the Service Providers can introduce environments and a plethora of computing equipment interacts their own policies, while a conflict detection and resolution with today’s urban citizens. We refer to these ubiquitous mechanism is in place. Users participating in the network are networked environments as “urban spaces” and attempt to willing to share resources, but at the same time they demand manage these under a unified framework based on policies. Since more control over their devices and protection of their personal users actively participate in urban spaces with their owned data. The proposed framework integrates the users’ preferences devices and demand more control and privacy, we introduce a and caters for their data protection by using regulatory policies. scheme to protect user privacy and respect their preferences. We adopt a multiple manager paradigm to enable more entities to The paper is org...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICC
• Authors: Antonis M. Hadjiantonis, Marinos Charalambides, George Pavlou
• Keywords: Communications, ICC 2007, Networked Network Operator, Today’s Urban Citizens, Urban Spaces