Realizing the Ubiquitous Network: the Internet and Beyond

Two major properties will characterize networks in the future: ‘3C everywhere’ and ‘physical interaction’. These two properties promise a computing infrastructure that seamlessly and ubiquitously aids users in accomplishing their tasks and that renders the actual computing devices and technology largely invisible. This paper begins by providing a brief overview of the emerging technologies that may influence the new ubiquitous network (UbiNet) architecture. The following section presents our STONE (Service Synthesizer on the Net) project at the University of Tokyo. We designed STONE to provide distributed transparency, service consistency, and context-awareness, and explored communication and computation technologies in a sensor-instrumented environment.