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PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Traditional Systems Can Work Well for Pervasive Applications. A Case Study: Plan 9 from Bell Labs Becomes Ubiquitous
There is a huge effort in ongoing research on new middleware platforms and new distributed services to support ubiquitous environments and pervasive applications. Most research pr...
Francisco J. Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz,...
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Policy-Driven Data Dissemination for Context-Aware Applications
Context-aware pervasive-computing applications require continuous monitoring of their physical and computational environment to make appropriate adaptation decisions in time. The ...
Guanling Chen, David Kotz
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
The Problem of Bluetooth Pollution and Accelerating Connectivity in Bluetooth Ad-Hoc Networks
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....
Somil Asthana, Dimitris N. Kalofonos
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Gaia Microserver: An Extendable Mobile Middleware Platform
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....
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Reducing the Calibration Effort for Location Estimation Using Unlabeled Samples
WLAN location estimation based on 802.11 signal strength is becoming increasingly prevalent in today's pervasive computing applications. As alternative to the wellestablished...
Xiaoyong Chai, Qiang Yang
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Unleashing the Power of Wearable Devices in a SIP Infrastructure
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...
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A Dynamic Lightweight Platform for Ad-Hoc Infrastructures
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...
Andreas Frei, Gustavo Alonso
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Towards seamless mobility on pervasive hardware
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...
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Sizzle: A standards-based end-to-end security architecture for the embedded Internet
Vipul Gupta, Michael Wurm, Yu Zhu, Matthew Millard...
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Secure context-sensitive authorization
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...
Kazuhiro Minami, David Kotz