Title: BKCAS: a distributed context-aware pervasive information system to support user roaming

Authors: Nguyen Chan Hung, Vu Thanh Vinh, Nguyen Huu Thang, Khuong Duy, Nguyen Tuan Dung, Nguyen Manh Thang

Addresses: Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Technology, Room 410, C9 Building, 1 Dai Co Viet Street, Hanoi, Vietnam. ' Faculty of Information Technology, ThaiNguyen University, Quyet Thang, ThaiNguyen, Vietnam. ' Research and Development Laboratory of Multimedia (RDLAB), Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Technology, Room 410, C9 Building, 1 Dai Co Viet Street, Hanoi, Vietnam. ' Research and Development Laboratory of Multimedia (RDLAB), Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Technology, Room 410, C9 Building, 1 Dai Co Viet Street, Hanoi, Vietnam. ' Research and Development Laboratory of Multimedia (RDLAB), Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Technology, Room 410, C9 Building, 1 Dai Co Viet Street, Hanoi, Vietnam. ' Research and Development Laboratory of Multimedia (RDLAB), Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Technology, Room 410, C9 Building, 1 Dai Co Viet Street, Hanoi, Vietnam

Abstract: Until, recently, the wide deployment of pervasive information system is still limited due to high cost of infrastructure, and more important, its requirement of rebuilding a new information infrastructure from scratch without reusing much from the current working system. In this study, we propose Bkhoa context-aware system (BKCAS), a novel architecture for scalable pervasive information system having the capability of intelligently routing multimedia messages to users based on the context processing. Moreover, BKCAS support user roaming over a large number of loosely coupled autonomous domains. Differ from many other pervasive systems, which assume a completely newly built infrastructure, our approach focuses on reusing the most of current infrastructure, and incrementally extend the system the most non-intrusive way in order to minimised deployment cost and to improve the user acceptance. Furthermore, we successfully prototype the system and evaluate its performance by an automated testbed.

Keywords: context-aware systems; distributed architecture; P2P; pervasive computing; ubiquitous computing; user roaming; peer-to-peer; information systems; intelligent routing; multimedia messages.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2010.036585

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, 2010 Vol.9 No.3/4, pp.316 - 325

Published online: 04 Nov 2010 *

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