Abstract— Research on context-aware systems is usually usercentric and thus focussed on the context of a specific user to serve his or her needs in an optimized way. In this pap...
Mobile environments are characterized by resource fluctuations and limitations, and variations in user preferences. Therefore mobile applications need to be adaptive to retain us...
Mourad Alia, Viktor S. Wold Eide, Nearchos Paspall...
— Sophisticated electronics are within reach of average users. Cooperation between wireless sensor networks and existing consumer electronic infrastructures can assist in the are...
Chris R. Baker, Kenneth Armijo, Simon Belka, Merwa...
In the near future, homes are envisioned to be equipped with numerous intelligent communicating devices. Such smart home needs to exhibit highly adaptive behavior to meet the inha...
— Quality of Service (QoS) of disadvantaged networks is usually considered from a purely network standpoint in existing works. Adversarial intervention in such networks is not an...
Vidyaraman Sankaranarayanan, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya,...
This paper aims to examine the benefits the introduction of trusted computing can bring to the mobile agent paradigm, with a specific emphasis on mobile agent security.
— Due to the technological evolution, context-aware computing is slowly moving from dream to reality. These applications heavily rely in sensing the user’s environment and ing ...
Web services are todays preferred vehicle for creating service-oriented architectures (SOA). Due to the boom of personal networked devices, the Web also found its way to the mobil...
—Wireless and mobile networks have experienced great success over the past few years. However, any single type of wireless and mobile network cannot provide all types of services...
We present a framework for a wireless health monitoring system within a smart home using ZigBee technology. Vital signals are collected and processed using a 3-tiered architecture...