Our approach to network management is to insert management functions into the network devices themselves. These functions are designed for low-duty cycle networks so that reconfiguration, performance characterization, and maintenance can take place autonomously. Choose network broadcast primitives for querying and monitoring. Combine querying and monitoring with network naming schemes. Develop Spatial web tools, including XML spatial tags and spatial nameservers.
Tags add spatial information to web-formatted pages.
We plan to have initial versions of these tools completed by December 2000. Develop the Infodispenser discovery service. This service will allows users to locate nearby infodispensers using the web-based link structure of the spatial web. An initial prototype discovery service has been started and will be completed by November 2000.