HU Berlin | Informatik | ROK

The OMADS Republic

After a period of explosive, unmitigated growth, the world is ready for the second chapter of the Internet revolution, namely, the support of ubiquitous computing where dynamic change, flexibility and on-demand components and services configurability will be expected. While consolidation, emerging maturity and survival of the fittest will rule at the corporate level, the web with virtually billions of devices attached to it and trillions of bytes of data will have to transform into an information, knowledge and remote control utility available to unprecedented numbers of novice as well as mature users anywhere, anytime. To lay out a foundation for this challenge the dream of adaptive, maintenance-free, self-relying systems must become a reality as public dependence on those systems will continue to rise and there will be insufficient human resources to continually support and maintain the computing/communication infrastructure.

To model such system and conquer the challenge, a vision of the NOMADS Republic, is introduced. The NOMADS (Networks of Mobile Adaptive Dependable Systems) infrastructure is aimed at supporting the functionality of the Republic. The goal of NOMADS infrastructure is to deliver low cost, dependable and adaptive connectivity in intelligent and highly semantic manner, making it possible to enter the age of "subdued computing", where computing and communication converge, but stay out of the way.

Teaching

NOMADS seminar summer semester 2005
NOMADS seminar summer semester 2004

Case Studies

Business models - see InterVal project page
Telemechanics - in cooperation with IWF
Consumer electronics reuse - in cooperation with Re-Mobile.de

Selected References

M. Malek: The NOMADS Republic. In: Proceedings of SSGRR 2003, Telecom Italia, L’Aquila, Italy, 2003. PDF
M. Malek: Towards Dependable Networks of Mobile Arbitrary Devices – Diagnosis and Scalability. Future Directions. In: Distributed Computing, Vol 2548, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, A. Schiper, A. Shvartsman, H. Weatherspoon and B.Y. Zhao, Eds. Springer 2003, 191-196.
N. Milanovic, V. Stantchev, J. Richling, M. Malek: Towards Adaptive and Composable Services. Proceedings of VIP Forum, IPSI-2003, October 2003, Montenegro.
M.Malek: The NOMADS Republic Slides (PDF)

Selected Links

Autonomic Computing:	Autonomic Computing at IBM Research
Adaptive Mobile Agents:	S. Ranjan, A. Gupta, A. Basu, "Adaptive Mobile Agents: Modelling and a Case Study" [ps], [doc],[ppt] BTech Thesis (Computer Science), IIT Kharagpur, May 2000. also, Workshop on Distributed Computing (WDC), Calcutta, India, Dec 2000.
Nomadic computing:	L. Kleinrock, "On Some Principles of Nomadic Computing and Multi-Access Communications", IEEE Communications Magazine, pp 46-50, July 2000. PDF Networking.com´s definition of nomadic computing
Ubiquitous computing	Mark Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing
Pervasive computing:	NIST Pervasive Computing Conference
Components:	Szyperski C., "Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming", Addison Wesley, 1998.
Non-functional properties:	Antonia Bertolino, Raffaela Mirandola, "Modeling and Analysis of Non-functional Properties in Component-based Systems". In: Mauro Pezzè (ed.), "Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science", vol. 82, no. 6, 2003. PDF
	more related work

use our WikiWeb to post comments, read more, and discuss specific issues

last update: 15.04.04