Initiating and bootstrapping secure, yet low-cost, ad-hoc transactions is an important challenge that needs to be overcome if the promise of mobile and pervasive computing is to b...
Location-based services in general require information about the position of certain objects. For instance, for a navigation service the position of the user needs to be known. Th...
Hendrik Lemelson, Thomas King, Wolfgang Effelsberg
The big challenge related to the contemporary research on ubiquitous and pervasive computing is that of seamless integration. For the next generation of ubiquitous and distributed...
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
— The recent trend of rapid increase in routing table sizes at routers comprising the Internet’s core is posing a serious challenge to the current Internet’s scalability, ava...