Abstract
Context-awareness is an important property of applications in ubiquitous computing and communication (ubicomp) environments. Context-sensitive applications use various data from the surrounding environments and the devices to adapt their behavior. Using context as a criterion to transparently establish communication links among devices requires effective system support. A context-sensitive middleware is effective to address these emerging applications since such a middleware provides both development and runtime supports to context-sensitive applications in addition to providing the interoperability in heterogeneous ubicomp environments. This implies that the object request broker (ORB) of the middleware must provide a mechanism to provide context-sensitive communication among objects. In this paper, the principles and software-hardware co-design aspect of a context-sensitive ORB is presented to facilitate context-sensitive communication among application objects in ubicomp environments.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems |
| Pages | 34-40 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| State | Published - 2001 |
| Event | 8th Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS'01) - Bologna, Italy Duration: Oct 31 2001 → Nov 2 2001 |
Other
| Other | 8th Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS'01) |
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| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Bologna |
| Period | 10/31/01 → 11/2/01 |
Keywords
- Bluetooth
- FPGA
- Mobile ad hoc networks
- Object request broker
- Reconfigurable context-sensitive middleware
- Software-hardware co-design
- Ubiquitous computing environment
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
- General Engineering