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Pollen: Virtual Networks That Use People as Carriers

Natalie GlanceContact Information and Dave SnowdonContact Information

(5)  Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Laboratory, 6 chemin de Maupertuis, 38240 Meylan, France
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel kind of network that uses people instead of wires (or other communication media) to carry message packets between devices and between physical places. In the course of their day, people move from device to device and from location to location. We will describe how this movement of people can be harnessed to allow the communication of electronic messages, albeit in a way that is relatively unreliable and unpredictable compared with traditional networks. This new kind of network infrastructure has a number of advantages, such as low cost and scalability.
Acknowledgements  The authors are indebted to Jean-Luc Meunier, for his work on as imulation of the Pollen network and Mike Glantz, Leon Rubinstein & Ian Soboroff for joining us in numerous discussions and especially for their contagious enthusiasm and support. Also many thanks are due to Nourredine Hamoudi and Nicolas Peret for their work constructing an initial prototype of the Pollen System.

Contact Information Natalie Glance
Email: glance@xrce.xerox.com

Contact Information Dave Snowdon
Email: snowdon@xrce.xerox.com
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