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It is important to note that the need to support ad-hoc and potentially mobile arrangements of devices in ubiquitous environments does not fit well within the traditional client/server architecture. We believe peer-to-peer communication offers a preferable alternative due to its decentralised nature, removing dependence on individual nodes. However, this choice adds to the complexity of the developers task. In this paper, we describe a two-tiered approach to address this problem: A lower tier employing peer-to-peer interactions for managing the network infrastructure and an upper tier providing a mobile agent based programming framework. The result is a general purpose framework for developing ubiquitous applications and services, where the underlying complexity is hidden from the developer. This paper discusses our on-going work; presenting our design decisions, features supported by our framework, and some of the challenges still to be addressed in a complex programming environment.

Item Type:	Refereed Conference Paper
Research Division:	Information and Computing Sciences
Research Group:	Distributed Computing
Research Field:	Networking and Communications
Objective Division:	Information and Communication Services
Objective Group:	Communication Networks and Services
Objective Field:	Communication Networks and Services not elsewhere classified
Author:	Nixon, Paddy (Professor Paddy Nixon)
ID Code:	69435
Year Published:	2003
Deposited By:	Research Division
Deposited On:	2011-04-20
Last Modified:	2014-09-12
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