Challenges in modeling and disseminating context information in ambient networks

  • Authors:
  • Dineshbalu Balakrishnan;May El Barachi;Ahmed Karmouch;Roch Glitho

  • Affiliations:
  • MMARL, SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada;Concordia University, Montreal, Canada;MMARL, SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada;Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

  • Venue:
  • MATA'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The concept of Ambient Networks (AN) aims at enabling the co-operation between heterogeneous networks on demand, in order to provide ubiquitous connectivity to end-users. This could be achieved by seamlessly incorporating context-awareness which plays a vital role in supporting autonomic decision making in ANs, while giving rise to new types of applications and services. Modeling and disseminating contextual information in a rapidly changing time-constrained heterogeneous environment, transparently to the potential users, is a challenge. This paper discusses these complications with an evaluation of the existing context modeling and dissemination approaches, with respect to ambient networking requirements.