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

Component‐based ad hoc systems for ubiquitous computing

Ren‐Song Ko, Chih‐Chung Lai, Chia‐Kuan Yen, Matt W. Mutka

The problems with poor performance and quality of ubiquitous applications due to limited computing resources are addressed.

Expanding mobile ad hoc grids with wired grid resources

Antônio Tadeu A. Gomes, Artur Ziviani, Bruno F. Bastos, Luciana S. Lima

Although wireless grids have been originally thought of as isolated processing clusters, the possibility of their approaching – and connecting to – a fixed network allows for a…

ASDF: an object oriented service discovery framework for wireless sensor networks

D. Villa, F.J. Villanueva, F. Moya, F. Rincón, J. Barba, J.C. López

The purpose of this paper is to present a new service discovery protocol (SDP) suitable for wireless sensor networks (WSN). The constraints imposed by ultra low‐cost sensor and…

PeerSum: a summary service for P2P applications

Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez, Noureddine Mouaddib

The goal of this paper is to contribute to the development of both data localization and description techniques in P2P systems.

A visual framework for deploying and managing context‐aware services

Ichiro Satoh

The purpose of this paper is to present a component framework for building visual interfaces for pervasive computing systems.

A model for context‐aware applications

Ningning Cheng, Shaxun Chen, Xianping Tao, Jian Lu, Guihai Chen

Context correctness and fault handling are very important to the quality of service in context‐aware applications. However, they are often ignored by researchers and application…

Assessing contention effects of all‐to‐all communications on clusters and grids

Luiz Angelo Steffenel, Maxime Martinasso, Denis Trystram

The purpose of this paper is to explain one of the most important collective communication patterns used in scientific applications which is the complete exchange, also called…

Guest editorial

Jean-Marc Pierson, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Jemal H. Abawajy

Note from the publisher

Vicky Williams