Service-Based Computing on Manets: Enabling Dynamic Interoperability of First Responders.

The article discusses the development of the Philadelphia Area Urban Wireless Network Testbed (PA-UWNT) which is a mobile network comprising mobile computers and web service-based applications. Such systems offer a solution for communications and situation management in infrastructure-free environment where power, network and other computing-related infrastructure are likely nonexistent or inoperable. The construction of such systems require research developments in computer networking, agent and service-based computing and security that integrate each of these disciplines at several fundamental levels.