A Self-organized Personal Network Architecture

This paper presents a self-organized architecture for personal networks. Personal Network (PN) is a user centric enabler for the next generation networks and services, which is dynamic in composition and involves heterogeneous networking technologies. One of the main research issues in the development of PNs is self-organization in order to be adaptive to the dynamics and heterogeneity of PNs. A PN architecture that consists of different self-organized functions is proposed in this paper. In addition, a personal network clustering protocol is proposed as one of the self-organized functions that forms a stable personal cluster and selects a master node of that personal cluster with a longer lifetime.