| 5 | 5 | Ariba is an overlay-based middleware that implements the underlay abstraction layer of the [http://www.spovnet.de Spontaneous Virtual Networks] (SpoVNet) architecture. It aims to ease the development of fexible, adaptive, and spontaneous overlay-based services and applications on top of heterogeneous and mobile networks. To this end, Ariba provides generic mechanisms for establishing and maintaining communication links across heterogeneous underlay networks using an identifier based addressing scheme. Building upon these mechanisms, applications can spontaneously establish an invariant virtual network substrate and use it for subsequent communication. |
