Location: Embedded System trackTime: 2007-11-13 11.00Level: Intermediate
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Jan S. Rellermeyer, ETH Zürich ,SwitzerlandJan S. Rellermeyer has received his MSc in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 2006. He is currently doing a PhD in the Information and Communication Systems Research Group (IKS) at ETH. His fields of research are OSGi in distributed environments and fluid computing. The latter deals with building collaborative, highly flexible applications for future mobile and ubiquitous applications. Jan has worked with OSGi for several years and pioneered the introduction of support for cross-VM OSGi services in the R-OSGi project.
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The Future is FluidIndependent of whether you believe in all the predictions in the "Third Wave of Computing" (M.Weiser), it is undeniable that mobile and ubiquitous end devices are starting to dominate the technological landscape. There are already more mobile phones in use than personal computers. Such an increase in users and the facility to access communication networks is leading to a shift towards more collaborative work including communication partners all around the globe. The big open question today is how to design, write, and deploy software in such highly distributed, often resource constrained devices. In this talk I will present the flowSGi project, carried out at ETH Zurich, where we are pursuing a radically new approach to building distributed applications. Our vision is to make applications "liquid", so that they can "flow" through the network, including their current state and data sets. One of our target infrastructure is our own OSGi platform (Concierge and R-OSGi) that gives us all the advantages of OSGi but efficiently implemented for small devices and with the ability to distribute modules. The flowSGi project builds on this infrastructure and explores a wide variety of important questions such as distribution transparency, state migration, automatic configuration, deployment of distributed applications, and large scale virtualization.
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