AGAPE: a Location-aware Group Membership Middleware for Pervasive Computing Environments

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  • ISCC '03 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications
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  • 2003

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Abstract

The widespread diffusion of mobile computing along withthe integration of telecommunication systems and theInternet enables a scenario where the promise of ubiquitouscomputing is starting to be realised. This scenariocalls for novel services the can be deployed on-demandclose to the user and customised to not only client needs,but also to the client current location. In particular,group membership management services should exploitthe visibility of client location to organize effective solutionsfor group communication and interoperation and topromote the design and development of advanced collaborativeapplications, such as traffic management ande-care ones. The paper describes a middleware for groupmembership management (AGAPE) that exploits both thevisibility of users position and the heterogeneous characteristicsof the access terminals to facilitate interoperationin a pervasive computing scenario.