Networks of open interaction

A network of open interaction (NOI) is an open access platform that enables agents distributed over a wide geographical area to remotely exert actions mutually or to an ambient environment. A valuable benefit of an open architecture is to allow open access so that it can be used to support a variety of individual or group objectives specified by the agents. In this paper we present some examples of NOI to serve as illustration. While much research on design techniques and analysis methodologies still awaits the attention of researchers, some germs of ideas relevant to NOI are presented here for consideration. The two main concepts are distributed control allowing choices and real-time medium access control built on protocol sequences.

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