Towards Establishing Ambient Network Environment

Masayuki MURATA 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E92-B  No.4  pp.1070-1076
Publication Date: 2009/04/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Internet Technology and its Architecture for Ambient Information Systems)
Category: INVITED
Keyword: 
ambient information environmentambient networking environmentinteractionsbio-inspired approachdynamical system

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Summary: 
In this article, we introduce a new concept for the future information environment, called an "ambient information environment (AmIE)." We first explain it, especially emphasizing the difference from the existing ubiquitous information environment (UbIE), which is an interaction between users and environments. Then, we focus on an ambient networking environment (AmNE) which supports the AmIE as a networking infrastructure. Our approach of a biologically inspired framework is next described in order to demonstrate why such an approach is necessary in the AmIE. Finally, we show some example for building the AmNE.