摘要 |
<p>The present invention proposes a system, framework and methodologies to compose a user-centric network based on the users spontaneous collaboration requirements. According to one aspect, user-centric networks are formed among like-minded users to enable new paradigm of social networking. Users specify their spontaneous collaboration requirements in the centralised server for instance preferably in terms of applications and services they are interested in. Based on the spontaneous collaboration requirements specified, the proposed system can proactively and reactively identify like-minded users and to form a user-centric network on demand by automatically electing one or more devices to take a special functionality from a short-range radio technology perspectives based on device capabilities and user-context, configuring the elected devices for the purpose of establishing communication channels especially from the perspectives of physical-layer, link-layer, TCP/IP-layer and application-layer, and passing the configured parameters on to other devices to associate with the elected devices.</p> |