International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications: Volume 1 Issue 1

Pervasive location‐based systems: The fundamental challenges between vision and reality

Helder Pinto, Rui José

Ideally, a pervasive location‐based system should allow mobile users to go anywhere and benefit from personalized and pro‐active services tailored for their current activity…

Designing a configurable services platform for mobile context‐aware applications

Patrícia Dockhorn Costa, Luís Ferreira Pires, Marten J. van Sinderen

Context‐aware services platforms aim at supporting the handling of contextual information in order to provide better user‐tailored services. This paper proposes a novel services…

Handling heterogeneity in context aware services

Ronald van Eijk, Alfons Salden, Johan de Heer, Arjan Peddemors, Petri Määttä, Ville Haataja

The increasing number of context aware services, which depend on various multimodal sensing, processing and actuating techniques, technologies and formats ask for a physical…

Creating audio‐augmented environments

Andreas Zimmermann, Andreas Lorenz

The paper deals with the design and creation of an intelligent user interface augmenting the user experience in everyday environments, by providing an immersive audio environment…

Hierarchical mobile network routing: Route optimization and micro‐mobility support for NEMO

Moon‐Sang Jeong, Jong‐Tae Park

A lot of recent research has been focused on developing network mobility management to support the movement of a mobile network consisting of several mobile nodes. The IETF NEMO…

Towards a smart world and ubiquitous intelligence: A walkthrough from smart things to smart hyperspaces and UbicKids

Jianhua Ma, Laurence T. Yang, Bernady O. Apduhan, Runhe Huang, Leonard Barolli, Mokoto Takizawa

A cyber world (CW) is a digitized world created on cyberspaces inside computers interconnected by networks including the Internet. Following ubiquitous computers, sensors, e‐tags…