Enabling location-based applications
WMC '01 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Mobile commerce
Advertising in a pervasive computing environment
WMC '02 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Mobile commerce
The design and applications of a context service
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
A Mobile System for Extracting and Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions
EurAsia-ICT '02 Proceedings of the First EurAsian Conference on Information and Communication Technology
The SAHARA Model for Service Composition across Multiple Providers
Pervasive '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pervasive Computing
Browser State Repository Service
Pervasive '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pervasive Computing
The SIMBA User Alert Service Architecture for Dependable Alert Delivery
DSN '01 Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (formerly: FTCS)
Location-Based E-Campus Web Services: From Design to Deployment
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Seamless User-Level Handoff in Ubiquitous Multimedia Service Delivery
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Implementing innovative services supporting user and terminal mobility: the SCARAB architecture
Journal of Systems and Software
Application polymorphism for autonomic ubiquitous computing
Multiagent and Grid Systems
Towards a social fabric for pervasive assistive environments
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Experiments on mobile context-aware instant messaging
CTS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Collaborative technologies and systems
UNA: a new internet architecture for user-level multi-homing and mobility
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies
Application-independent session mobility between user terminals
MATA'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications
An architecture for highly available wide-area service composition
Computer Communications
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Communication technology has been seeing rapid growth, characterized by new access networks (e.g. cellular, pager, wireless-IP) and end-devices (e.g. PDAs, two-way pagers, multi-model access devices). There have been several efforts at integrating services across such heterogeneity. However, little work has been done on identifying an underlying architecture for such an integration. We identify the requirements for this in the context of an integrated network with heterogeneous end-points. The Universal Inbox provides (a) generic data type transformation, (b) customizable redirection of incoming communication based on user preference profiles, and (c) device name mapping and translation. We present an architecture mapping these functionalities to reusable infrastructure components realized as Internet services. The unique feature of the architecture is its extensibility-it allows not only the integration of existing end-points but also extension in terms of the end-devices and novel services it can handle. We have implemented the Universal Inbox components in a test-bed setting, supporting a variety of devices and services: GSM cellular phones, voice-over-IP end-points, voice-mail, e-mail, instant messaging service, etc. With our architecture, building personal mobility and service mobility features and extending them to new end-points has been easy in concept and in implementation. The performance analyses with the initial implementation show that even the heavy-weight components can be scaled to accommodate a large user base.