A middleware architecture for inter ad-hoc networks communication

Complex and decentralized information systems need advanced communication services at the middleware level in order to leverage context-aware distributed applications working, for example, despite node mobility and in a setting where such services can be billed. In this paper, we present a middleware architecture offering a communication service which, in its more general case, is able to provide connectivity between two nodes belonging to distinct mobile ad-hoc networks by taking user profiling into account. The proposed architecture is based on a resource awareness service enabling dynamic resource discovery and composition despite the assumed heterogeneity of the ad-hoc networks building the system.