Personal Mesh: A Design of Flexible and Seamless Internet Access for Personal Area Network

With the proliferation of various types of computing and networking resources in ubiquitous computing environments, an architecture allowing mobile users to flexibly access these resources is desirable. We have focused our attention on the access link resources of devices surrounding users. Our framework named Personal Mesh allows personal devices to seamlessly access the Internet via appropriate access links available in a personal area network. The Personal Mesh deals with two technical issues: access link selection management and a PAN mobility support mechanism. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of Personal Mesh and show the effectiveness of our system by experiment. key words: personal area network, Internet access link, mobility support, personal gateway