Computer Science – Networking and Internet Architecture
Scientific paper
2006-03-18
5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems, February 2006 (IPTPS 2006), Santa Barbara, CA
Computer Science
Networking and Internet Architecture
7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
Scientific paper
Nontechnical users who own increasingly ubiquitous network-enabled personal devices such as laptops, digital cameras, and smart phones need a simple, intuitive, and secure way to share information and services between their devices. User Information Architecture, or UIA, is a novel naming and peer-to-peer connectivity architecture addressing this need. Users assign UIA names by "introducing" devices to each other on a common local-area network, but these names remain securely bound to their target as devices migrate. Multiple devices owned by the same user, once introduced, automatically merge their namespaces to form a distributed "personal cluster" that the owner can access or modify from any of his devices. Instead of requiring users to allocate globally unique names from a central authority, UIA enables users to assign their own "user-relative" names both to their own devices and to other users. With UIA, for example, Alice can always access her iPod from any of her own personal devices at any location via the name "ipod", and her friend Bob can access her iPod via a relative name like "ipod.Alice".
Ford Bryan
Kaashoek Frans
Lesniewski-Laas Chris
Morris Robert
Rhea Sean
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