1. Can I get the information on "mobinet"?
How is it organized and
working? (You mention that you use
"wavelan", but I hope to get more
information on it.)
Mobinet is well explained in on our paper
"The
Mobiware Toolkit: Programmable
Support
for Adaptive Mobile Networking" published in the IEEE Personal Communications
Magazine, August 1998.
Mobinet comprises programmable distributed
CORBA objects that execute on mobile devices,
access points and mobile capable
switches that realize a set of mobile signaling and QOS adaptation
algorithms.
Wavelan is used at the moment at the wireless
MAC/Datalink layer; In our current implementation QOS
control is not supported at the MAC layer,
but it is accomplished through the interaction between the
mobile network and an adaptive and active
transport environment.
2. Is there any information or source
code for the transmition/reception of cells/packets
over the wireless link and mobinet?.
Would you explain the specifications of the wireless
environment?
It is true that we have not released the
implementation of the beaconing APIs which are based on
propriatery software we acquired from
LUCENT. However all the implementation of our wireless transport
environment is available. Look at the
files under the directories \datapath, \transport, and \filters.
We use native ATM transport for the wireline
portion of the network and UDP over wavelan for the wireless.
In between our transport environment
injects active filters for fine-grained QoS adaptation.
3. I've read the paper by prof. Cambell
on Mobiware. However, are there any changes in mobiware
release v1.0 compared with the previous
notions in the paper? if there are, do you have any plan to
release the document on explaining
the basic ideas for QoS management, mobility management and other
sorts of features which are used
in mobiware?
Mobiware v1.0 follows the design principles
described in the paper: "Mobiware: QOS-Aware Middleware for
Mobile Multimedia Communications" , which
was presented in the 7th IFIP International Conference on High
Performance Networking, White Plains,
NY, 1997". However as our ideas develop, we suggest you to have a look
at our recent work focused on building
QoS adaptation policies into the MAC layer (G.Bianchi, A.T. Campbell and
R. R.-F. Liao "On
Utility-Fair Adaptive Services in Wireless Networks", IEEE/IFIP IWQOS'98).
Also the IEEE PCS
paper, available at the overview
section of this site, contains detailed performance evaluation of our
platform.
4. Are you giving away the required the required orbs as well?
Mobiware requires Iona's Orbix and Orbixweb v2.0
which are commercial packages, not included in the
release. The hardware and software requirements to
run Mobiware are shown in the source code
section.
It is likely though, to have a future
version of Mobiware that uses a public domain
available orb (omniORB).