Concept of

Shadow NetworkDr. Mazlan Abbas

Wireless Communications ClusterOct. 18, 2011

Source: Morgan Stanley Mobile Internet Report Dec ‘09

1,000,000

100,000

10,000

100

10

1

1000

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020

Devices/Users

Mainframe

Minicomputer

PC

Desktop Internet

10B+ Connected

Devices+1B

+100M

+10M

+1M

MobileInternet

Source: Rysavy Research Feb;10

Mobile Internet CapacityGbytes

14

12

10

8

6

4

2

02010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

CapacityDemand

Capacity Supply

The Mobile Internet is Creating New Challenges for Mobile Operators

Facing the Mobile Data Crunch

“Your Device Being Part (Extension) of You”

Think / Emotion /Listen / See /Read /

Location

“It captures your personality”

AccelerometerDigital

CompassGyroscope

GPSMicrophone

CameraMP3 Player

Video

How Shadow Network Looks Like?

Hierarchical and Fixed?

Hierarchical System Architecture

How Shadow Network Looks Like?Hierarchical and Fixed?

What Do You See?

WCC Brainstorming Session“TEAPOTS – Thinking Elicitation and Problem Outstripping

Tactics Session”

Shadow Network“Flexible network that can form and adapts to its surrounding environment”

Artificial Natural

User Generated

How Do You Make Network That Changes Shape?

A network that is “alive”, “evolve” and form according to the traffic scenarios.

A network that always get connected.

A network that “always get supported” from different networks.

Mesh/Internet/Heterogeneous

Network

Bursty Traffic

Shortest Route / Dedicated Network

Tunnel

Beamforming

Jungle

Volcano

Tunnel

Buildings

Big / SmallVolatile / Non--VolatileOpportunisticTime-basedInstantaneousControlled / Non-Controlled Dependent / IndependentDestructive / Non-ConstructiveReactive / ProactiveCentralized / DecentralizedIntensity / CapacityVirtual / RealExternal EntityExpansion / EvolveMorphAdaptiveRandom / Deterministic

Using Shadow Network as a Mobile Data Offloading Solution

Beam forming and Adaptive Array AntennasCommunity Based NetworksDMZ / Honeypot NetworksDynamic Mobile CloudUbiquitous NetworkHigh Altitude PlatformsSatelliteQoSNEMOBest Effort / Ad-HocHotspots / Repeater / Relay / SporadicGateway Redirection / Local Caching / Internet CachingPiggyback / Shared ResourcesMesh / Internet / Heterogeneous Network / World Wild Web

“Opportunistic Networking (Store-Carry-Forward)”Mobile Ad-Hoc networks, intermittently connected and suitable for delay tolerant applications.

Opportunistic networks are human-centric because they opportunistically follow the way humans come into contact.

Mobility models based on social behavior represent an important tool for testing the performance of opportunistic systems.

Virtual Social Network overlay atop the Electronic Social Network

SUMMARY

Shadow Network is still a CONCEPTIts an IDEAL NetworkIts HETEROGENEOUS

Its INTELLIGENTIt LEARNSIt EVOLVESIts ALIVE!

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