Counting or estimating the number of tags is crucial for large-scale RFID systems. The use of multiple readers was recently proposed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness in ...
This paper presents preliminary results on anonymization and obfuscation techniques to preserve users' privacy in context-aware service provisioning. The techniques are based...
Linda Pareschi, Daniele Riboni, Alessandra Agostin...
Pervasive computing systems provide personalized and intimate services to improve users' quality of life by integrating computation and communication into the environments. Wi...
Semantic similarity measurement gained attention over the last years as a non-standard inference service for various kinds of knowledge representations including description logics...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of resource constraints in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Wireless Sensor Networks (MP2P WSNs). We propose a scheme to load share tasks among peer s...
In this paper, we present a domain-specific Interface Definition Language (IDL) and its compiler, dedicated to the development of pervasive computing applications. Our IDL provide...
Wilfried Jouve, Julien Lancia, Nicolas Palix, Char...
Providing on-demand video streaming services to large numbers of nodes in mobile wireless networks is a challenging task. We propose MOVi (Mobile Opportunistic Video-on-demand), a...
Hayoung Yoon, JongWon Kim, Feiselia Tan, Robert Hs...
Comparing context of different entities is not easy at all. Since context depends on the situation of a particular entity it can be understood in different ways by various entitie...
Low cost devices such as RFIDs, sensor network nodes, and smartcards are crucial for building the next generation pervasive and ubiquitous networks. The inherent power and footpri...
Service placement deals with the problem of selecting which node in a network is most suitable for hosting a service that responds to queries from other nodes. Optimally placing s...