The capacity to gather and timely deliver to the service level any relevant information that can characterize service-provisioning environment, such as computing resources/capabilities, physical device location, user preferences, and time constraints, usually defined as context-awareness, is widely recognized as a core function for the development of modern ubiquitous and mobile systems. Much work has been done to enable context-awareness and to ease the diffusion of context-aware services; at the same time, several middleware solutions have been designed to transparently implement context management and provisioning in the mobile system. However, to the best of our knowledge, an in-depth analysis of the context data distribution, namely the function in charge of distributing context data to interested entities, is still missing. Starting from the core assumption that only effective and efficient context data distribution can pave the way to the deployment of truly context-aware services, this paper aims at putting together current research efforts to derive an original and holistic view of the existing literature. We present a unified architectural model and a new taxonomy for context data distribution, by considering and comparing a large number of solutions. Finally, based on our analysis, we draw some of the research challenges still unsolved and we identify some possible directions of future work.

Bellavista P., Corradi A., Fanelli M., Foschini L. (2012). A Survey of Context Data Distribution for Mobile Ubiquitous Systems. ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS, 44(4), 1-45 [10.1145/2333112.2333119].

A Survey of Context Data Distribution for Mobile Ubiquitous Systems

BELLAVISTA, PAOLO;CORRADI, ANTONIO;FANELLI, MARIO;FOSCHINI, LUCA
2012

Abstract

The capacity to gather and timely deliver to the service level any relevant information that can characterize service-provisioning environment, such as computing resources/capabilities, physical device location, user preferences, and time constraints, usually defined as context-awareness, is widely recognized as a core function for the development of modern ubiquitous and mobile systems. Much work has been done to enable context-awareness and to ease the diffusion of context-aware services; at the same time, several middleware solutions have been designed to transparently implement context management and provisioning in the mobile system. However, to the best of our knowledge, an in-depth analysis of the context data distribution, namely the function in charge of distributing context data to interested entities, is still missing. Starting from the core assumption that only effective and efficient context data distribution can pave the way to the deployment of truly context-aware services, this paper aims at putting together current research efforts to derive an original and holistic view of the existing literature. We present a unified architectural model and a new taxonomy for context data distribution, by considering and comparing a large number of solutions. Finally, based on our analysis, we draw some of the research challenges still unsolved and we identify some possible directions of future work.
2012
Bellavista P., Corradi A., Fanelli M., Foschini L. (2012). A Survey of Context Data Distribution for Mobile Ubiquitous Systems. ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS, 44(4), 1-45 [10.1145/2333112.2333119].
Bellavista P.; Corradi A.; Fanelli M.; Foschini L.
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