This position paper argues that the mobile agents paradigm is a useful and important technology enabling pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Context awareness drives adaptability ...
The widespread diffusion of portable devices with multiple wireless interfaces, e.g., UMTS/GPRS, IEEE 802.11, and/or Bluetooth, is enabling multi-homing and multi-channel scenarios...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli
This paper proposes a network-initiated terminal mobility mechanism (NITM) to facilitate handover with the session initiation protocol (SIP) in 3GPP Voice over WLAN (3GPP VoWLAN). ...
Hierarchical software components offer interesting characteristics for the development of complex applications. However, supporting the deployment of such applications is difficult...
A number of emerging distributed platforms include xed and robust workstations but, like dynamic and pervasive networks, are often built from mobile and resource-constrained device...