Integrated Service Navigation Framework for Ubiquitous Networking

Integrated Service Navigation Framework for Ubiquitous Networking By Toshio TONOUCHI,* Norihito FUJITA,† Naoto MAEDA,* Tomohiro IGAKURA* and Yoshiaki KIRIHA† A huge amount of service components will soon be deployed to ubiquitous networks. Each will provide a simple service, but compositions of service components are expected to be highly valuable to users, because it is hard for users to find and combine adequate service components. We are developing a service navigation architecture in which a composite service is assembled from service components autonomously. We point out four issues to be addressed in the architecture: autonomy, efficiency, security, and reliability. In our architecture, these issues are handled by integrating management of applications and the management of networks. In this paper, we explain the technologies we are developing for this integrated management.