The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particula...
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
In a container transport system, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be used for monitoring products while they are being transported. To be commercially interesting, these WSNs m...
Abstract. There is growing trend to unify user-to-user messaging systems to allow message exchange, independent of time, place, protocol, and end-user device. Building gateways to ...
—Application mobility is an efficient way to mask uneven conditioning and reduce users’ distractions in pervasive environments. However, since mobility brings more dynamism and...