Context Awareness in Mobile Computing Environments

  • Authors:

  • Christos B. Anagnostopoulos;Athanasios Tsounis;Stathes Hadjiefthymiades

  • Affiliations:

  • Pervasive Computing Research Group, Communication Networks Laboratory, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 15784;Pervasive Computing Research Group, Communication Networks Laboratory, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 15784;Pervasive Computing Research Group, Communication Networks Laboratory, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 15784

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this article, we report software architectures for context awareness in mobile computing environments, sensor centric systems and discuss context modeling issues. Defining an architecture for supporting context-aware applications for mobile devices explicitly implies a scalable description of how to represent contextual information and which are the abstraction models capable of handling such information. Using sensors to retrieve contextual information (e.g., user location) leads to a sensor network scheme that provides services to the applications level. Operations for capturing, collating, storing, and disseminating contextual information at the lowest level and aggregating it into increasingly more abstract models qualify the context-aware systems. In this article, we introduce context aware systems in mobile computing environments, review the basic mechanisms underlying the operation of such systems, and discuss notable work and important architectures in the area.