Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications
Subtitle: First International Workshop, MATA 2004, Florianopolis, Brazil, October 20-22, 2004. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Ahmed Karmouch (Editor); Larry Korba (Editor); Edmundo Madeira (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9783540234234
Subjects: General Theory of Computing; General; Computer Science; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Information Storage & Retrieval; Networking - General; Computers / Networking / General
First sentence: The increasing availability of public wireless access points to the Internet and the widespread popularity of wireless-enabled portable devices stimulate the provisioning of distributed services to a wide variety of mobile client terminals, with very heterogeneous and often limited resources.
Description: It is becoming quite clear that there will be important technological advances in - bile and wireless connectivity, known as third-/fourth-generation (3G and 4G) mobile telecommunications systems. As a result we will be surrounded by ever-growing m- tidomain (technical and administrative) heterogeneous communications in both wired and wireless networks. This resulting environment deals with communication in m- tizoned networks, where people, devices, appliances and servers are connected to each other via different kinds of networks. Networks will be pervasive, ubiquitous, multis- vice, multioperatorand multiaccess. The mobility trend will also be spurred forward by the growing availability of mobile-enabled handheld devices. Mobile systems are expected to provide mobile users with cost-effective, secure, yet ubiquitous service access anywhere and anytime. Users will then continue to enjoy the new-found freedom mobile access provides and will have increasingly high exp- tations of mobility-aware applications that should be capable of seamlessly supporting the mobile lifestyle. The papers in this volume discuss issues from models, platforms, and architectures for mobility-aware systems to security, mobile agent technologies, sensitive com- nications, context awareness, mobile applications and management. They cover both practical experience and novel research ideas and concepts.