An Information Flow Architecture for Global Smart Spaces

TL;DR

This paper presents an architecture for global smart spaces that enables secure, flexible, and dynamic deployment of distributed components with shared data and communication capabilities.

Contribution

It introduces a novel architecture supporting geographic deployment, security, data sharing, communication, and dynamic reconfiguration of smart space components.

Findings

Supports dynamic reconfiguration of component topologies

Enables secure and geographically distributed deployment

Facilitates shared data and communication among components

Abstract

In this paper we describe an architecture which: Permits the deployment and execution of components in appropriate geographical locations. Provides security mechanisms that prevent misuse of the architecture. Supports a programming model that is familiar to application programmers. Permits installed components to share data. Permits the deployed components to communicate via communication channels. Provides evolution mechanisms permitting the dynamic rearrangement of inter-connection topologies the components that they connect. Supports the specification and deployment of distributed component deployments.