PROTOCOL ARCHITECTURE FOR UNIVERSAL PERSONAL COMPUTING

This paper presents a new paradigm for network computing over the Inte rnet called universal personal computing, where mobile users can acces s computing resources, network services, and personalized computing en vironments anywhere using any available terminals, The user and system requirements are defined, and an agent-based protocol architectural r equired to manage different mobile objects, i.e., users and terminals, in this computing environment is presented, Modifications of connecti on setup procedures between user application programs to enable addres sing based on a global user identity are considered, The use of person al agents to facilitate interworking and management functions is propo sed.