An Architecture for Spatial Networking
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| author | Millar, Josh Gibb, Ryan Ang, Roy Haddadi, Hamed Madhavapeddy, Anil |
| author_facet | Millar, Josh Gibb, Ryan Ang, Roy Haddadi, Hamed Madhavapeddy, Anil |
| contents | Physical spaces are increasingly dense with networked devices, promising seamless coordination and ambient intelligence. Yet today, cloud-first architectures force all communication through wide-area networks regardless of physical proximity. We lack an abstraction for spatial networking: using physical spaces to create boundaries for private, robust, and low-latency communication. We introduce $\textit{Bifröst}$, a programming model that realizes spatial networking using bigraphs to express both containment and connectivity, enabling policies to be scoped by physical boundaries, devices to be named by location, the instantiation of spatial services, and the composition of spaces while maintaining local autonomy. Bifröst enables a new class of spatially-aware applications, where co-located devices communicate directly, physical barriers require explicit gateways, and local control bridges to global coordination. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | An Architecture for Spatial Networking Millar, Josh Gibb, Ryan Ang, Roy Haddadi, Hamed Madhavapeddy, Anil Networking and Internet Architecture Artificial Intelligence Logic in Computer Science Multiagent Systems Physical spaces are increasingly dense with networked devices, promising seamless coordination and ambient intelligence. Yet today, cloud-first architectures force all communication through wide-area networks regardless of physical proximity. We lack an abstraction for spatial networking: using physical spaces to create boundaries for private, robust, and low-latency communication. We introduce $\textit{Bifröst}$, a programming model that realizes spatial networking using bigraphs to express both containment and connectivity, enabling policies to be scoped by physical boundaries, devices to be named by location, the instantiation of spatial services, and the composition of spaces while maintaining local autonomy. Bifröst enables a new class of spatially-aware applications, where co-located devices communicate directly, physical barriers require explicit gateways, and local control bridges to global coordination. |
| title | An Architecture for Spatial Networking |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture Artificial Intelligence Logic in Computer Science Multiagent Systems |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22687 |