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Appliance Aggregation Architecture for Seamless IT Integration

Explore the proposal on Appliance Aggregation within the P2P technical domain, bridging communities and advancing access to data and services through interconnected IT devices.

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Appliance Aggregation Architecture for Seamless IT Integration

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  1. BoF on A3 Appliance Aggregation Architecture Dejan Milojicic Hewlett Packard Global Grid Forum 5, Edinburgh, July 23, 2002

  2. Purpose of This BoF • Evaluate a proposal for a Research Group on Appliance Aggregation within P2P technical area • Bring GGF and P2P communities closer together

  3. Introduction • IT appliances are penetrating daily life • cell phone, digital camera, watch, PDA, laptop, … • Rather than helping, IT is becoming more complex • distributed data, resources, and I/O • hard to manage, use • privacy and security concerns • IT appliances designed & used like traditional ones • one function, isolated state, resources • however, IT appliances are connected, introducing:distributed state, shared resources, apps & functionality • Wearables: battle for the belt

  4. Motivation • Ownership of devices, appliances work only for me • Access any data/resource from any appliance • Use apps from any appliance • Perform tasks unaware of appliances, applications • Appliance ensemble • Levels of aggregation • Ways of using it • interaction of existing appliances • compose new appliances • performance

  5. Scenario 1 I still haven’t finished that report?!

  6. Scenario 1 Ensemble Written notes Aggregation Data Storage Your appliances work together to help you achieve your task Spoken notes/commands

  7. Internet/NW input storage application output Scenario 2, Mix & Match

  8. Outline • Terms and requirements • Vision, Mission, Purpose, Goals • Related Work • Summary • Open Floor

  9. Definition of Terms • Appliance: a (network) device able to aggregate with other devices; a smallest unit of aggregation • example: camera, PDA, laptop, watch, hotspot, etc. • !example: no communication • Ensemble: a group of appliances aggregated to perform a function greater than their parts • example: camera & PDA capture & annotate pictures • !example: fixed relationships (!ad hoc) • Appliance aggregation: multiple appliances operating as a single entity for a period of time • example: use another device’s screen; ensemble-wide app • !example: using predefined clusters

  10. Requirements • Appliance discovery, identity, and communication • Secure communication channels between appliances • No trust boundaries within an ensemble • Access to aggregated resources of personal and environment appliances • Illusion of a “bigger” virtual appliance, consisting of aggregated sum of resources of individual appliances • Tolerance to temporary and permanent failures and disconnection of appliances in an ensemble

  11. Vision (where to) • Perform any function using any IT appliance anywhere

  12. Mission(what and by when) • Devise an architecture of appliance aggregation in the next 2 years

  13. Purpose(why and for whom) • To improve access to data and services from any location using available IT appliances by wide population of people (enterprise, home..)

  14. Tentative Goals • Devise • best practices (6 months) • staged architecture (12, 24, 36 months) • standards (36 months) • working prototypes (6-36 months)

  15. Related Work • Pervasive computing visions • Academia: Weiser, Thackara, Oxygen, Norman, Satya, … • Industry: Digital Jewelry, wearable computing, storage • Platforms • UPnP, Jini, one.world, other academic/industry efforts • Architectures • IBM mainframe, PC • Standards • IEEE 488, IEEE 1394

  16. Summary • Many separate technical solutions already exist • Extraordinary opportunity for innovation, standards • Orthogonal to traditional GGF topics • Potential interest by academia and various industries • Bringing P2P closer to GGF

  17. Open Floor • For contacts, please email to dejan@hpl.hp.com • See also www.ati2002.org on related workshopon critical and pervasive applications

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