Sensor networks are one important building block towards the realisation of context-aware applications. Suitable communication protocols and middleware solutions are necessary to ...
Near field communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless protocol that allows users to connect devices and access content and services by simply holding enabled devices near each ...
Yaw Anokwa, Gaetano Borriello, Trevor Pering, Roy ...
The components of a context-aware system can often become disconnected because of the dynamic environments within which they are deployed. Hoarding context information on the clie...
? Peer-to-peer is a popular distributed system. With the advancement in mobile technologies, mobile p2p has revealed its attraction. But, the resource constraints such as bandwidth...
RFID tags combined with globally unique numbering schemes such as the Electronic Product Code (EPC) help standardizing the communication along the supply chain. Participants gener...
Alexander Ilic, Florian Michahelles, Elgar Fleisch
Access control to sensitive resources in pervasive computing needs to take uncertainty into account. Previous research has developed uncertainty-aware access-control models for en...
Overlay Networks (ONs) are logical networks built on top of a physical network with the aim of moving part of the routing complexity to the application layer. At the same time, sen...
Leonardo B. Oliveira, Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Lou...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are increasingly being employed as a key building block of pervasive computing infrastructures, owing to their ability to be embedded within the re...
Animesh Pathak, Luca Mottola, Amol Bakshi, Viktor ...