Service Provisioning Framework for Self-Organized Networks

Mobile ad hoc networking, as a typical example of self organized networks, is an emerging and promising communication paradigm. Not only the variety of devices but also the diversity of services is continuously increasing. Such services must be provisioned in a flexible and distributed way without central infrastructure. Thus, service deployment and management for such mobile devices are extremely difficult since a provisioning framework must cope with the high level of heterogeneity, degree of mobility, and take limited device resources into account. In this talk, we introduce SIRAMON, a generic, decentralized service provisioning framework for self-organized networks. SIRAMON integrates the required functions to deal with the full life-cycle of services. SIRAMON offers sufficient capabilities to specify, deploy, instantiate and manage not only trivial but also complex services like mobile ad hoc group applications.