In order to prevent emergencies or critical situations where humans are the origin, a timely provision of information thus obtained for the coordinating services and the on-site st...
The ever increasing size of networks has resulted in a corresponding escalation of administration costs and lengthy deployment cycles. Clearly, more scalable and flexible network...
—Due to a continued increase in the speed and capacities of computing devices, combined with our society’s growing need for mobile communication capabilities, multihop wireless...
New mobile computing technologies and the increasing use of portable devices have pushed the development of the so-called context-aware applications. This new class of applications...
Some popular computing technologies, such as ubiquitous computing, grid computing and thin-client computing, bring people to a much more distributed and pervasive computing enviro...