Pervasive computing middleware: current trends and emerging challenges

Middleware for Pervasive Computing

This paper investigates the role of middleware in the various pervasive computing scenarios. Middleware can be used provide an important transparency or abstraction layer between applications and lower layers that actually implemention layer between applications and lower layers that actually implement the requested services. Middleware services include messaging, RCP, synchronization and unive...

Pervasive Computing Middleware

Pervasive computing envisions applications that provide intuitive, seamless and distraction-free task support for their users. To do this, the applications combine and leverage the distinct functionality of a number of devices. Many of these devices are invisibly integrated into the environment. The devices are equipped with various sensors that enable them to perceive the state of the physical...

Pervasive Computing: Trends and Impacts

Enterprise Computing in Healthcare Sector: Emerging Trends and Future Challenges

Enterprise distributed computing has made rapid strides in many sectors of the economy, such as telecommunications and finance sectors. Organizations are now reaping benefits of these advances through better efficiency and better quality of services worldwide. There have been attempts by many groups to implement such benefits in the healthcare sector, the largest business sector in the world. H...

Pervasive computing: vision and challenges

This paper discusses the challenges in computer systems research posed by the emerging field of pervasive computing. It first examines the relationship of this new field to its predecessors: distributed systems and mobile computing. It then identifies four new research thrusts: effective use of smart spaces, invisibility, localized scalability, and masking uneven conditioning. Next, it sketches...