Architectural and QoS Aspects of Personal Networks

Personal Networks (PNs) are future communication systems that combine wireless and infrastructure based networks to provide users a variety of services anywhere and anytime. PNs introduce new design challenges due to the heterogeneity of the involved technologies, the need for self-organization, the dynamics of the PN composition, the application-driven nature, the co-operation with infrastructure-based networks, and the security hazards. This paper discusses the challenges of security, service discovery and QoS provisioning in designing selforganized PNs and combines them all into an integrated architectural framework.
Network Architectures and Services
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science