Skin Networking
Guy Pujolle · 2020
Skin networking is the new paradigm that is the least developed. The skin datacenter directly holds the users' connection antenna. Femto-datacenters are located very close to clients, i.e. in the access points or in boxes situated in the user's area. Numerous virtual machines such as routers, switches, firewalls or application machines can be transported to the femto-datacenters from a central Cloud or a local server. A femto-datacenter may support diverse virtual machines – particularly virtual Wi-Fi access points. Software Local Area Networks open up new possibilities, such as the installation of SDN Wi-Fi access points. Many experiments show that skin datacenter networks performing uberized networks are possible. The notion of participatory Internet is when users take part in the creation of autonomous networks, meaning networks that can keep working without any connection with the Internet network or with external servers.