Personal Network Routing Protocol (PNRP) for Personal Ubiquitous Environments

The proliferation of heterogeneous devices, ranging from mobile communication to home electronics and their inter-networking have resulted into the development of a "Personal ubiquitous environment" around the user. In this increasingly complex world, Personal Networks (PN) and Personal Network Federations (PN-F) provide simple but powerful concepts towards the vision of "personal ubiquitous environments". This paper proposes solutions to realise the concepts of PN and PN-F. To this end, the authors first present the Integrated CONvergence (ICON) layer which offers seamless interoperability across heterogeneous access technologies at mobile nodes in PNs. Then, they introduce the Personal Network Routing Protocol (PNRP) for personal ubiquitous environments.