International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications: Volume 1 Issue 4

Peer‐based automatic configuration of pervasive applications

Marcu Handte, Christian Becker, Kurt Rothermel

Pervasive computing envisions seamless support for user tasks through cooperating devices that are present in an environment. Fluctuating availability of devices, induced by…

Deploying pervasive secure knowledge management infrastructures

Apostolos Malatras, George Pavlou, Petros Belsis, Stefanos Gritzalis, Christos Skourlas, Ioannis Chalaris

Pervasive environments are mostly based on the ad hoc networking paradigm and are characterized by ubiquity in both users and devices and artifacts. In these inherently unstable…

Content‐based routing in highly dynamic mobile ad hoc networks

Roberto Baldoni, Roberto Beraldi, Leonardo Querzoni, Gianpaolo Cugola, Matteo Migliavacca

The decoupling and asynchrony properties of the content‐based publish‐subscribe paradigm makes it very appealing for dynamic wireless networks, like those that often occur in…

(Dis)trust certification model for large access in a pervasive environment

Rachid Saadi, Jean‐Marc Pierson, Lionel Brunie

The challenge of pervasive computing consists in offering access to computing services anywhere and anytime with any devices. However, before it becomes a reality, the problems of…

An energy‐efficient protocol for multimedia streaming in a mobile environment

Giuseppe Anastasi, Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, Andrea Passarella, Luciana Pelusi

Pervasive services and smart environments are becoming more and more popular as an ever‐increasing number of people enjoys these services typically by means of portable devices…

Multi‐criteria routing in wireless sensor‐based pervasive environments

Qinglan Li, Jonathan Beaver, Ahmed Amer, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Alexandros Labrinidis, Ganesh Santhanakrishnan

Wireless sensor networks are expected to be an integral part of any pervasive computing environment. This implies an ever‐increasing need for efficient energy and resource…

Resolving knowledge discrepancies in situation‐aware systems

Ulrich Meissen, Stefan Pfennigschmidt, Agnés Voisard, Tjark Wahnfried

Demand‐orientation is of crucial importance in mobile and pervasive information services in order to ensure the delivery of the right information at the right time and at the…

Autonomous middleware framework for sensor networks

Kiran Modukari, Salim Hariri, Nader V. Chalfoun, Mazin Yousif

Programming Sensor Networks currently is a subtle task not because of enormous amount of code but due to inherent limitations of embedded hardware like the power, memory, network…