Report from the First Research Group Meeting on Appliance Aggregation Architecture

(appagg)

Milan Milenkovic and Dejan Milojicic

GGF6, Chicago, October 2002

(attendance 30+ people)

What is Appliance Aggregation Arch.?

• Ad-hoc aggregation of wireless appliances

• Appliances in locale– personal: handheld, laptop, tablet, etc.– consumer: phone, camera, watches, etc.– environment: display, U/I, surrogate, etc.

• We do not focus on (even though we may support) – sensors, embedded (in general sense)– grids in general: distributed computing, data sharing– geographically distributed

Charter, Definition  

• Complements other Grid RGs & WGs, address client side appliances

• Addresses appliances from perspective of – aggregation: discovery, identity, security, com – personal use: trust, HCI, apps, disconnection– environment: scalability, power, ambience

• Three perspectives tied in by – wireless, ad-hoc, and pervasive deployment

Draft Charter, Milestones

• Agreed upon the charter and establish the plan (October 2002, at GGF6)

• Survey of current practices (+12 months)

• Staged architecture (+12, 24, 36 months)

• Standards (+36 months) 

• Working prototypes (+6-36 months)

Milestones, Current Practices (6-12 months)

• Terminology (chairs)– common terms related to appliances & Grid – relate p2p, Grids, appliances, pervasive & embedded

computing

• Survey (Ian Taylor)– survey the field of appliances aggregation – compare grid & p2p related to aggregation– survey & compare a few of case studies

• Use cases (Dimitris Lioupis)• Public relations (recruit other companies)