Band XI International has won Phase I funding for their proposal to research, architect, and design a solution for sharing OSGi services across a moobile ad-hoc mesh network to leverage the distributed computing capabilities of the connected computing platforms.
The Phase I award was announced in December 2008 with a performance period through June 2009.
The award supports research into the specification, design, and architecture of an open source Mobile Embedded Component Suite (MECS) that will facilitate rapid integration of devices, communications, and human machine interfaces.
The objective of this reseaarch effort is to prove the technical feasibility of building a distributed services framework (DSF) that addresses the complexities associated with mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Areas of investigation include:
- Identify specific MANET complexities that must be addressed for the framework to be considered successful,
- Identify standards, technologies, and associated requirements to address the hosting, discovery, advertising, and invocation of distributed services running on different computing platforms, operating systems and programming languages,
- Identify requirements to support distributed grid/parallel computing built using the distributed services framework, and
- Integrate our proposed solution into the OSGi framework and move for wider adoption, and
- Analyze breadth/depth of commercial and government market opportunities, develop product development plan, and initial market strategy.
Band XI intends to develop these components in an agile manner, driven by real scenarios and through a transparent and continuous build process. The firm employs aspecification by reference implementation approach, wherein any specifications, designs, or architecture decisions are supported by a running reference implementation to prove their viability.