Pervasive Computing and Communications Design and Deployment: Technologies, Trends and Applications

✍ Scribed by Apostolos Malatras

• Publisher: IGI Global snippet
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 405
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Pervasive computing environments based on the ubiquitous communications paradigm have attracted significant research interest and have found increased applicability in commercial settings, attributed to the fact that they provide seamless, customized, and unobtrusive services to their users. Research on pervasive and ubiquitous computing has been prolific over the past years, leading to a large number of corresponding diverse software and hardware infrastructures, networking solutions, methodologies, and frameworks.Pervasive Computing and Communications Design and Deployment: Technologies, Trends, and Applications has a broad scope since it is intended to provide an overview on the general and interdisciplinary topic of pervasive computing and communications. Particular aspects studied in this book include enabling factors, key characteristics, future trends, user adoption, privacy issues and impact of pervasive computing on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and its associated social aspects. The book is intended to serve as a reference for computer science practitioners, students and researchers, covering design principles and relevant implementation techniques and technologies regarding pervasive computing.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgment......Page 27
Querying Issues in Pervasive Environments......Page 30
Context-Aware Smartphone Services......Page 53
Building and Deploying Self-Adaptable Home Applications......Page 78
CADEAU......Page 103
Pervasive and Interactive Use of Multimedia Contents via Multi-Technology Location-Aware Wireless Architectures1......Page 132
Model and Ontology-Based Development of Smart Space Applications......Page 155
Self-addressing for Autonomous Networking Systems......Page 179
A Platform for Pervasive Building Monitoring Services Using Wireless Sensor Networks......Page 208
Level Crossing Sampling for Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks......Page 236
Dependability in Pervasive Computing......Page 259
Secure Electronic Healthcare Records Distribution in Wireless Environments Using Low Resource Devices......Page 276
Privacy in Pervasive Systems......Page 292
Factors Influencing Satisfaction with Mobile Portals......Page 308
Socio-technical Factors in the Deployment of Participatory Pervasive Systems in Non-Expert Communities......Page 325
Pervasive Applications in the Aged Care Service......Page 347
Compilation of References......Page 364
About the Contributors......Page 390
Index......Page 399