A pervasive system features a plethora of devices, services and applications organized as a large distributed system. One approach to managing such systems is by policies where ad...
One of the challenges in pervasive computing is communication between a mobile user's terminal and the continuously changing local environment. Bluetooth is one potential opt...
A smart home aims at building intelligence automation with a goal to provide its inhabitants with maximum possible comfort, minimize the resource consumption and thus overall cost...
RFID systems as a whole are often treated with suspicion, but the input data received from individual RFID tags is implicitly trusted. RFID attacks are currently conceived as prop...
Melanie R. Rieback, Bruno Crispo, Andrew S. Tanenb...
This paper presents Cantag, an open source software toolkit for building Marker-based Vision (MBV) systems that can identify and accurately locate printed markers in three dimensi...
Andrew C. Rice, Alastair R. Beresford, Robert K. H...
In this paper we introduce the Inverted Browser, a novel approach to enable mobile users to view content from their personal devices on public displays. The Inverted Browser is a ...
Mandayam T. Raghunath, Nishkam Ravi, Marcel-Catali...
With the continued increase of speed and capacities of computing devices and the growing needs of people for mobile computing capabilities, Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have gai...
In mobile computing environments, handheld devices with low functionality restrict the services provided for mobile users. We propose a new concept of collaborative browsing, wher...
In this paper, we design and evaluate an energy efficient data retrieval architecture for continuous aggregate queries in wireless sensor networks. We show how the modification of...
Area based triggers denote notifications being generated if a mobile client changes its spatial relation to a defined area, e.g. if it enters or leaves it. By these triggers, new ...