The overwhelming success of mobile devices and wireless communications is stressing the need for the development of mobility-aware services. Device mobility requires services adapting their behavior to sudden context changes and being aware of handoffs, which introduce unpredictable delays and intermittent discontinuities. Heterogeneity of wireless technologies (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G) complicates the situation, since a different treatment of context-awareness and handoffs is required for each solution. This paper presents a middleware architecture designed to ease mobility-aware service development. The architecture hides technology-specific mechanisms and offers a set of facilities for context awareness and handoff management. The architecture prototype works with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, which today represent two of the most widespread wireless technologies. In addition, the paper discusses motivations and design details in the challenging context of mobile multimedia streaming applications.

Integrated Support for Handoff Management and Context Awareness in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks / P. Bellavista; M. Cinque; D. Cotroneo; L. Foschini. - STAMPA. - 115:(2005), pp. 47-54. (Intervento presentato al convegno 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC'05), within Middleware'05 tenutosi a Grenoble, Francia nel Novembre 2005).

Integrated Support for Handoff Management and Context Awareness in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

BELLAVISTA, PAOLO;FOSCHINI, LUCA
2005

Abstract

The overwhelming success of mobile devices and wireless communications is stressing the need for the development of mobility-aware services. Device mobility requires services adapting their behavior to sudden context changes and being aware of handoffs, which introduce unpredictable delays and intermittent discontinuities. Heterogeneity of wireless technologies (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G) complicates the situation, since a different treatment of context-awareness and handoffs is required for each solution. This paper presents a middleware architecture designed to ease mobility-aware service development. The architecture hides technology-specific mechanisms and offers a set of facilities for context awareness and handoff management. The architecture prototype works with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, which today represent two of the most widespread wireless technologies. In addition, the paper discusses motivations and design details in the challenging context of mobile multimedia streaming applications.
2005
ACM Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC'05)
47
54
Integrated Support for Handoff Management and Context Awareness in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks / P. Bellavista; M. Cinque; D. Cotroneo; L. Foschini. - STAMPA. - 115:(2005), pp. 47-54. (Intervento presentato al convegno 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC'05), within Middleware'05 tenutosi a Grenoble, Francia nel Novembre 2005).
P. Bellavista; M. Cinque; D. Cotroneo; L. Foschini
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