Appliance Aggregation Architecture (appagg)

The First Research Group Meeting

Milan Milenkovic and Dejan Milojicic

GGF6, Chicago, October 2002

Agenda

• Brief introduction by Milan & Dejan (10 min)

• A view of appliance aggregation and grid - Milan Milenkovic (30 min)

• Discussion (50 min) – group charter and focus – desktop v. personal appliances aggregation

similarities and differences – work plan and deliverables

Problem Space and Distinction

• Ad-hoc aggregation of wireless appliances

• Appliances in locale– Personal: handheld, laptop, tablet, etc.– Consumer: phone, camera, watches, etc.– Environment: display, U/I, surrogate, etc.

• We do not address– sensors, embedded in general sense– grids in general: distributed comp., data share– geographically distributed

Draft Charter, Definition  

• Complements other Grid RGs & WGs address client side appliances

• Addresses appliances from perspective of – Aggregation: discovery, identity, security, com – Personal use: trust, HCI, apps, disconnection– Environment: scalability, power, ambience

• Three perspectives tied in by – wireless, ad-hoc, and pervasive deployment

Draft Charter, Structure

• Chairs – Milan Milenkovic, appliance grid– Dejan Milojicic, personal appliances grid

• Secretary– Dimitris Lioupis,

• Web Site: www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/ggf 

Draft Charter, Goals• Link GGF to pervasive, ad-hoc & appliances

• Devise architecture for appliance aggregation – Encourage info & code sharing by proposing strategies for

interoperability– Process for researchers & developers to exchange results

and contribute to community– Identify future areas of research important to continuing

advance of Grids– HCI requirements for future appliances in ubiquitous

environments

Draft Charter, Milestones

• Agree upon the charter and establish the plan (October 2002, at GGF6)

• Current practices (+12 months)

• Staged architecture (+12, 24, 36 months)

• Standards (+36 months) 

• Working prototypes (+6-36 months)

Milestones, Current Practices(next 6-12 months)

• Terminology (Milan & Dejan)– common terms related to appliances & Grid – relate p2p, Grids, appliances, pervasive & embedded

computing

• Survey (Ian Taylor)– survey the field of appliances aggregation – compare grid & p2p related to aggregation– survey & compare a few of case studies

• Use cases (Dimitris Lioupis)• Public relations

Milestones, Staged Architecture (next 12, 14, 36 months)

• High Level Architecture– Define vision, use cases, functional and

non-functional requirements, principles, conceptual architecture, guidelines, etc.

– Evolve over the time, with specific design details coming to bear at later phases

Milestones, Standards (next 36 months)

• Guidelines towards standardization of the appliance aggregation architecture– Cross platform aggregation

(by different vendors)– Specify interfaces & functionality required of

different levels of aggregation of appliances• E.g. ownership, state, applications, functionality

Relationship to other WG/RG• Other p2p RGs

– Desktop and consumer Grids– OGSAp2p– eGrid

• Other GGF– Advanced Collaborative Environments  – Applications & Test Beds  – Grid Computing Environments (GCE-RG) – Grid User Services (GUS-RG) – Discovery & Monitoring Event Description – Grid Protocol Architecture (GPA)

GAME

OGSAp2p

Appagg E-Grid

embedded, sensorsautomation

App-level I/F

local, personal,consumer

Grid-specific

p2p, mobile, ad-hocmiddleware, communication

architectureappliances

infrastructure

services

applications

appagg eGrid

game

ogsap2p

GGF