As mobile devices, such as laptops, PDAs or mobile phones, are getting more and more ubiquitous and are able to communicate with each other via wireless technologies, the paradigm...
Mobility is redefining the hardware and software fabric of distributed systems. Wireless communication allows network hosts to participate in a distributed computation while on t...
Nomadic computing environments are composed of heterogeneous mobile computing domains. Unfortunately, the service discovery platforms suitable for each domain are scarcely interop...
Domenico Cotroneo, Cristiano di Flora, Massimo Fic...
Mobile phones are a widely-available class of device with supporting communications infrastructure which can be appropriated and exploited to support ubicomp experiences. However m...
Chris Greenhalgh, Steve Benford, Adam Drozd, Marti...
This paper presents an approach for exchanging presence information between users of an instant messaging system in a mobile ad hoc network. As major feature, presence information ...