a distributed model for digital personal environments management
Digital Personal Environments (DPE) infrastructure is far from traditional end users' devices and its associated management is a big challenge for both Service Providers and Users. Due to the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of DPE, centralized management paradigms are no longer valid. This paper presents a new distributed paradigm that is based on Autonomic Communications principles and concepts to build self-managed environments. Semantic technologies are the cornerstone for the self-management paradigm. So as to effectively control DPEs, methods of governance must also be provided. Policies provide a high level language for users that can realize such governance. A proof of concept shows the feasibility of the new paradigmalthough some aspects need to be further developed, related for instance tothe lack of standardization and agreement in the industry.
management autonomic home gateway inference osgi ontology