The BioMPE project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) addresses the provision of reliable pervasive environments based on P2P overlay networks that are built on top of heterogeneous, dynamically changing, wired and wireless physical network infrastructures. We develop mechanisms to increase resilience against dynamic changes in a P2P overlay network, taking into consideration the established shift towards a ubiquitous distributed networking paradigm.
To increase the reliability, advanced node and network monitoring mechanisms are introduced, based on biology-inspired algorithms, so as to benefit from their inherent support for adaptation and robustness in highly dynamic situations. This monitoring scheme allows for efficient resource discovery and improves network management in general, thus further promoting the deployment of reliable pervasive computing environments.
BioMPE is partitioned into three research tasks:
(1) swarm computing for network monitoring
(2) adaptive management of pervasive environments
(3) integration and evaluation
The project duration is 3 years starting on April 2010 and involves research efforts by one PhD student and one Postdoctoral Fellow. It is led and managed by Prof. Béat Hirsbrunner, head of the Pervasive & Artificial Intelligence research group.
BioMPE is being funded by the SNF under grant number 130132. More details can be found here.
