International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications: Volume 5 Issue 2

Application development environment for event‐driven ubiquitous devices

Ryohei Sagara, Yasue Kishino, Tsutomu Terada, Shojiro Nishio

In ubiquitous computing environments, not only programmers but also general users come to develop/customize applications. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to propose a new…

Baton: a service manager for better sustaining agent coordination in smart spaces

Yue Suo, Jingyu Li, Yuanchun Shi, Peifeng Xiang

Smart spaces are open complex computing systems, consisting of a large variety of cooperative smart things. Central to building smart spaces is the support for sophisticated…

ENME: An ENriched MEdia application utilizing context for session mobility in a telecom system

Egil C. Østhus, Per‐Oddvar Osland, Lill Kristiansen

In many settings, the users are mobile (e.g. away from their desks) while high quality multimedia telephony equipment has fixed locations. This may result in unsuccessful…

Understanding and avoiding interaction‐based instability in pervasive computing environments

Victor Zamudio, Victor Callaghan

This paper aims to address a fundamental problem related to the interaction of rule‐based autonomous agents in pervasive and intelligent environments. Some rules of behaviour can…

A multi‐hop mobility management protocol for heterogeneous wireless networks: OTHER ARTICLE

Abraham George, Anup Kumar, S. Srinivasan

Mobility management for single‐hop cellular networks has received much research attention in the last few years. One of the research challenges for 4G wireless systems is the…

Guest editorial

Evi Syukur, Javier Garcia-Villalba