This paper investigates a real-world problem termed "Bluetooth (BTH) pollution", which is expected to become commonplace as the mass deployment of BTH devices continues....
The Gaia ubiquitous computing platform currently supports mobile devices through a thin client proxy architecture. Mobile devices run a lightweight proxy client written in J2ME to...
Ellick Chan, Jim Bresler, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy H....
WLAN location estimation based on 802.11 signal strength is becoming increasingly prevalent in today's pervasive computing applications. As alternative to the wellestablished...
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been widely adopted for Instant Messaging (IM) and VoIP telephony both by the enterprise and in service provider systems. Till now, SIP f...
Arup Acharya, Stefan Berger, Chandrasekhar Narayan...
Mobile devices like PDAs or mobile phones have become widespread. Similarly, network functionality like GSM, Bluetooth, or WLAN has become standard. Nevertheless, not many applica...
Preserving one's uniquely customized computing environment as one moves to different locations is an enduring challenge in mobile computing. We examine why this capability is...
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Michael Kozuch, Casey Helf...
There is a recent trend toward rule-based authorization systems to achieve flexible security policies. Also, new sensing technologies in pervasive computing make it possible to de...
We envision a future in which clouds of microcomputers can be sprayed in an environment to provide, by spontaneously networking with each other, an endlessly range of futuristic a...
Franco Zambonelli, Marie Pierre Gleizes, Marco Mam...