Middleware for ubiquitous context-awareness

ABSTRACT

This position paper discusses the challenges and trade-offs of implementing a middleware that supports ubiquitous contextawareness, i.e., a scenario where context-aware applications may move throught network environments without suffering disruptions in their context-based interactions. We present a middleware approach based on the concept of context domains that satisfy some of the requirements of this scenario.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design
          Subjects: Wireless communication

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems
          Subjects: Distributed applications

  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
        D.2.11 Software Architectures
            Subjects: Domain-specific architectures

General Terms:
Design, Performance, Reliability

Keywords:
context management, context-awareness, middleware, ubiquitous computing