— The localization of a mobile device is of essential need in order to provide location based services to the users, e.g. in an emergency situation. Several mechanisms have been ...
In Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) networks, the mobility anchor point (MAP) is introduced to localize binding update messages destined to the home agent. In a large-scale wirel...
Novel wireless handheld devices allow the adoption of revised and adapted discovery approaches originally devised for the Semantic Web in mobile ad-hoc networks. Nevertheless, capa...
Michele Ruta, Floriano Scioscia, Eugenio Di Sciasc...
This paper presents “ConServ1 ”, a web service for context management. ConServ allows smart spaces to access user’s context data according to user-defined policies. This we...
Abstract— Privacy and security are two important but seemingly contradict objectives in pervasive computing environments (PCEs). On the one hand, service providers want to authen...