MAY 00/ S-31
KHAN/KSU
Text Box: MEDIANET Networking and Media Communications Research Laboratory
MEDIANET
 Networking and Media Communications Research Laboratory
Reflection: Resource Adaptation
•In a large network diversity is ingrained
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•Whether it is an adaptive service or not, but the ingredient components should not make very restrictive assumption about network resources.
•This requires certain behaviors (potential “Active Network Layer Services)
–Network resource awareness
–State awareness about the service
–Self-organization help (state maintenance signaling?)
–Plug-in in the applications themselves (footprint).
–Seamless reorganization