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Bridging context management systems for different types of pervasive computing environments

Authors:

Cristian Hesselman,

Maarten Wegdam,

Martin Wibbels,

Jacco BrokAuthors Info & Claims

MOBILWARE '08: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications

Article No.: 7, Pages 1 - 8

Published: 13 February 2008 Publication History

Abstract

A context management system is a distributed system that enables applications to obtain context information about (mobile) users and forms a key component of any pervasive computing environment. Context management systems are however very environment-specific (e.g., specific for home environments) and therefore do not interoperate very well. This limits the operation of context-aware applications because they cannot get context information on users that reside in an environment served by a context management system that is of a different type than the one used by the application. This is particularly important for mobile users, whose context information is typically available through different types of context management systems as they move across different environments. In this paper, we address this interoperability problem by placing bridges between different types of context management systems, in particular systems for home, mobile, and ad-hoc environments. The novelty of our bridges is that they focus on resolving functional differences between context management systems, whereas prior work in this area concentrates on resolving differences in data models. We discuss our bridging architecture and zoom in on a few selected bridges, focusing on their context discovery and exchange functions. We also outline how we implemented these bridges.

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Garcés-Erice LBauer DScotton PBosch JClarke S(2009)A flexible and scalable message broker for sensor network integrationProceedings of the Fourth International ICST Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middlewaRE10.1145/1621890.1621896(1-9)Online publication date: 16-Jun-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1621890.1621896
da Rocha REndler Mde Siqueira TTerzis S(2008)Middleware for ubiquitous context-awarenessProceedings of the 6th international workshop on Middleware for pervasive and ad-hoc computing10.1145/1462789.1462797(43-48)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1462789.1462797

Index Terms

Bridging context management systems for different types of pervasive computing environments
1. Networks
  1. Network protocols
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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MOBILWARE '08: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications

February 2008

315 pages

ISBN:9781595939845

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Linda Xie
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
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Tuna Tugcu
Bogazici University, Turkey

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Garcés-Erice LBauer DScotton PBosch JClarke S(2009)A flexible and scalable message broker for sensor network integrationProceedings of the Fourth International ICST Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middlewaRE10.1145/1621890.1621896(1-9)Online publication date: 16-Jun-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1621890.1621896
da Rocha REndler Mde Siqueira TTerzis S(2008)Middleware for ubiquitous context-awarenessProceedings of the 6th international workshop on Middleware for pervasive and ad-hoc computing10.1145/1462789.1462797(43-48)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1462789.1462797

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