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High Performance Computing

Mobile Agent-Based Enabling Technologies

Mobile Agent-Based Enabling Technologies for Ad Hoc Virtual Teams over the Internet is 3-year project (until September 2004) conducted in collaboration with the University of Ottawa and Mitel Corporation.

The research team is designing and developing a multi-site infrastructure to:

facilitate ad hoc access to heterogeneous resources - both dynamic and static - at one site by users located at a foreign site
facilitate location-based access for communication among users that participate in the conference session
exercise the use of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) for ad hoc collaboration
share information based on the context of a conference session
help users communicate among themselves in a conference setting
project users and their automatically discovered resources and services to other users with appropriate access rights
project the availability of resources to users

Positive results of this research could benefit public and private enterprises, dispersed research groups and multi-vendor collaboration projects, among others.

Possible application areas include:

ad hoc conferences and collaboration tools
SIP-based IP phone systems
hardware and software resource discovery
location-based and context-based applications
presence middleware software
pervasive computing
conferences through Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

Inquiries about collaborating in this research are welcome. Possible research opportunities are in peer to peer, web services and grid services technologies, mobile-agent frameworks, GPS, pervasive and wearable computing. If interested, please contact the research contact listed below.

Research Contact

Dr. Roger Impey
Group Leader
High Performance Computing
NRC Institute for Information Technology
1200 Montreal Road
Building M-50, Room 272A
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Telephone: +1 (613) 991-6974
E-mail: Roger.Impey@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Business Contact

Dr. George Forester
Business Development Officer
Business Development Office, NCR
NRC Institute for Information Technology
1200 Montreal Road
Building M-50, Room 203
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Telephone: +1 (613) 993-3478
Fax: +1 (613) 952-0074
E-mail: George.Forester@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca