近隣網シミュレータの試作

摘要

我国では2050年頃に3人に1人が65オ以上になると推計されており今後恒常化する少子高齢社会において，年金制度の変質等に伴う経済的配慮，人手不足を補う介助装置の遠隔管理，多種多様なデリバリーサービスや地域に密着したボランティア活動等，様々なソーシャルサービスが必要になると考えられる.ソーシャルサービスは，広域網が提供するビジネスサービスと異なり，必ずしも高速•広帯域を必要としないサービスも多いため，我々は既存の広域網とは別建てに，近隣地域において課金を必要としないオープンな近隣網(Interlinked homes network；IHN)を提案している.%An interlinked homes network (IHN) has been proposed as a means of mitigating the deleterious consequences associated with the low birthrate and rapidly aging society of Japan in a way that is economically viable. The architecture of this IHN is based on its mission of providing various strictly social services (but not business services) at no charge within a community, which does not need a fast or high bandwidth network. In this report, an experimental simulator for the IHN is presented. This simulator is composed by several personal computers that correspond to a network interface and a user terminal for source and destination nodes. The simulator runs with asynchronous timing between nodes in real time and its performances are shown.