Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive ComputingThis senior undergraduate textbook explains how computers share, protect, and use data in an environment where the location is not fixed. It discusses agents and service discovery for middleware, protocols and routing for wireless sensor networking, and approaches to security in personal, local, metropolitan, and wide area networks. All four author |
Contents
Mobile Adaptive Computing | 1 |
Data Dissemination and Management | 55 |
ContextAware Computing | 91 |
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Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing Frank Adelstein,Sandeep KS Gupta,Golden Richard III,Loren Schwiebert No preview available - 2004 |
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ad hoc networks adaptation additional algorithm allows approach architecture attack authentication bandwidth base station battery Bluetooth broadcast cache cation cell changes channel cluster head configuration connectivity context cost data item deployed deployment detect devices disconnected distributed dynamic encryption energy Estrin event example hoc networks interface Internet invalidation IP address Jini location information location management location registrar maintain mechanisms middleware mobile agent mobile client mobile computing mobile computing environments mobile host mobile node multicast multiple neighboring node Sensor node Odyssey optimal packet perform piconet problem protocol proxy query radio receive request routing scalable scheme Sensor node Sensor sensor readings server service catalogs service discovery service discovery frameworks signal techniques timestamp tion transceiver transmission transmit update UPnP wireless communication Wireless link wireless networks wireless sensor networks