TwiddleNet: Empowering Personal Servers in a Distributed Network
TwiddleNet is an innovative architecture serving as a gateway to millions of mobile personal servers. It allows users to search, view, and download content hosted on personal servers from both handheld devices and desktops. The system emphasizes smart caching through content access statistics, ensuring efficient delivery. Ideal for rapid content applications like damage assessment and real-time communication in first-responder scenarios, TwiddleNet harnesses the vast potential of networked handheld devices, giving users complete control over their multimedia content.
TwiddleNet: Empowering Personal Servers in a Distributed Network
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TwiddleNet: A Distributed Personal Server Network TwiddleNet Architecture • Portal (but not a server) which is gateway to Mobile Personal Servers • Allows search, viewing and download of content hosted on personal servers • Content access statistics for smart caching • Accessible from handhelds and desktops • Match the end-user device capability TwiddleNet • Applications • First-responder hastily formed networks • Damage Assessment • Reporting, Communication, • Social networking • Other rapid content applications • Contact • Prof. Gurminder Singh, • NPS/CS, gsingh@nps.edu, 831.656.3041 What is TwiddleNet? • Gateway to millions of Mobile Personal Servers (which are twiddling most of the time) • Mobile personal servers run on networked handheld devices – cell phones and PDAs • Mobile personal servers host user’s content – images, videos, audio • Why TwiddleNet? • Immediate content capture and publish • Full owner control of content • Harness the power of millions (billions) of mobile devices twiddling most of the time • Allow access to content which is otherwise inaccessible
