A Middleware Service for Coordinated Adaptation of Communication Services in Groups of Devices

—Recent research in pervasive computing has shown that context-awareness and dynamic adaptation are fundamental requirements of mobile distributed applications. However, most approaches that focus on context-aware dynamic adaptation use only the context information available at the mobile device to trigger a local adaptation. However, for distributed collaborative applications this is clearly insufficient, since a same adaptation has to be done, in synch, at all mobile devices of the group, and hence should also be based on a commonly agreed context. Therefore, for such kinds of applications one requires mechanisms and protocols to exchange the context information among the devices and to coordinate of the adaptation operations at a group of mobile device. In this paper we present a middleware service for coordinated adaptation of communication services in groups of devices. At each device this adaptation is achieved with minimal disruption for the application’s remote interaction...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: PERCOM
• Authors: Jordan Janeiro, Thomas Springer, Markus Endler
• Keywords: Context-aware Dynamic Adaptation, Dynamic Adaptation, Mobile Device, PERCOM 2009, Wireless Networks