This paper presents “ConServ1 ”, a web service for context management. ConServ allows smart spaces to access user’s context data according to user-defined policies. This we...
—The increasing availability of location-aware mobile devices has given rise to a flurry of location-based services (LBS). Due to the nature of spatial queries, an LBS needs the...
This paper focuses on the problem of how to allow a source to send a message without revealing its physical location and proposes an anti-localization routing protocol, ALAR, to a...
Xiaofeng Lu, Pan Hui, Don Towsley, Juahua Pu, Zhan...
In this paper we describe a new way to improve the usability of complex hardware setups in Intelligent Environments. By introducing a virtual character, we facilitate intuitive int...
In many instances, an ad hoc network consists of nodes with different hardware and software capabilities as well as power limitations. This is the case of ad hoc grids where devi...
Guoqiang Wang, Yongchang Ji, Dan C. Marinescu, Dam...