Title: Open framework for distributed context management in ubiquitous environments

Authors: Jun-Hong Lu; Chiung-Ying Wang; Ren-Hung Hwang

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, 621, Taiwan ' Department of Information Management, Transworld University, Yun-Lin, 640, Taiwan ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, 621, Taiwan

Abstract: Most previous research into ubiquitous computing has focused on small and ad hoc environments with proprietary infrastructures and protocols. Consequently, context-aware services are usually developed without considering interoperability among different systems, devices and services. This work presents an open framework for ubiquitous environments, with a distributed context management architecture and a communication model based on standard protocols. With this framework, a smart device can search for context-aware services and a service can be easily deployed via standard protocols and distributed context managers. A prototype of the framework has been implemented to demonstrate its feasibility.

Keywords: ubiquitous computing; context management; open framework; distributed architecture; context-aware services; interoperability; communication models.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2012.047007

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012 Vol.9 No.4, pp.199 - 210

Published online: 24 May 2012 *

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