In this paper, we analyze the role of the social group in a Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) environment as a source of contextual information. A model is presented to address the s...
The programmable network approach is one possible solution to quickly adapt existing infrastructures to new requirements. This paper shows how programmable networking can be explo...
Services in pervasive computing systems must evolve so that they become minimally intrusive and exhibit inherent proactiveness and dynamic adaptability to the current conditions, u...
Maria Strimpakou, Ioanna Roussaki, Carsten Pils, M...
Traditional sensor network deployments consisted of fixed infrastructures and were relatively small in size. More and more, we see the deployment of ad-hoc sensor networks with h...
Martin F. O'Connor, Vincent Andrieu, Mark Roantree
Recent research has demonstrated the benefits of active networks: customized network services can easily be built and modified, packet streams can be processed inside the network...