A mobile context monitoring platform for pervasive computing environments

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

6-2011

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new mobile platform to support emerging pervasive applications in a Personal Area Network (PAN)-scale dynamic mobile computing environment. The PAN-scale computing environment will constitute an important part of future pervasive-space technology with highly proactive applications, requiring continuous monitoring of users' contexts. The context-aware applications impose heavy workloads on the mobile device and the sensor nodes with highly limited computing and battery power especially for continuous monitoring of user contexts. Our new context monitoring system provides a scalable and energy-efficient monitoring architecture for such applications. It actively interplays between applications and computing resources, coordinating multiple applications to effectively leverage the limited resources and provide quality service to users. Example applications are also developed based on the implemented system design. Experimental results show that the system achieves a superior level of scalability and energy efficiency.

Keywords

Battery power, Computing environments, Computing resource, Context aware applications, Continuous monitoring, Energy efficient, Heavy workloads, Mobile computing environment, Mobile context, Mobile platform, Monitoring architecture, Monitoring platform, Monitoring system, Multiple applications, Personal area networks, Pervasive applications, Pervasive computing environment, Proactive applications, Quality services, User context

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies: Daejeon, Korea, 31 May 2011-3 June 2011

First Page

345

Last Page

348

ISBN

9781457708725

Identifier

10.1109/DEST.2011.5936591

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2011.5936591

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