end of 2005; Christian Loos, Stefan Wesner, Jürgen M. Jähnert

Abstract:
Mobility adds specific new challenges to Virtual Organizations (VO). The challenges for Membership Management and Service (Provider) Selection is significantly different compared to traditional Virtual Organisation (VO) in particular to static infrastructures typical in research Grid deployments. Having VO nodes that change their context such as location, device capabilities, connection quality etc. affect the way how tasks can be distributed. Furthermore nodes can even go offline without notice for an undetermined time. This paper discusses the specific new challenges of Mobile Dynamic Virtual Organizations (MDVO) aligned with a generic scenario from the e-Health domain and how the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) in particular combined with SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) is applied.

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Source:
Innovation and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies (IOS Press, ISBN 1-58603-563-0, editors P. Cunningham, M. Cunningham)

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