A new paradigm in computing has arrived [1]. The pervasive computer provides a new application layer and presents new challenges for application designers. The combination of computing devices provides a unique environmentspecific platform for the development of applications. Applications not only rely on the pervasive computing devices and their interconnections, but also the location of these...

Traditional software architecture models, such as: Object-oriented, Service-oriented, Agent-oriented, have been confronting the challenges in more and more complex distributed computing situations, e.g. pervasive computing, Internet of things, smart-city, etc. Organization-oriented architecture model is proposed to attempt to improve the abstraction and design capability of software architectur...

Pervasive computing aims at creating environments saturated with embedded and portable computing devices surrounding the users and providing them with many interesting services. It has been gradually applied into our everyday life and its applications are becoming more and more extensive day by day. However, exploiting its full potential is difficult due to some inherent problems such as limite...

Pervasive computing will introduce hundreds of computing devices per user. This change is of such magnitude that it is qualitative as well as quantitative. Old solutions may not scale when the size of the problem grows by such a factor—passwords, for example, will no longer be a suitable user authentication method. In this paper we examine new security issues for pervasive computing including a...

This work presents a survey and taxonomy of pervasive computing research. This work is aim to serve as a guideline for those who are new to pervasive computing and want to contribute to this research area.

A key goal of computing is to enhance communication. Pervasive computing takes this a step further and strives to make communication less intrusive and more useful. This project investigates the network components required for a pervasive collaborative environment. We include user-to-user communication and an interface to interact with the surrounding (pervasive) environment. Instead of buildin...

Here we present the SimCon tool to enable evaluators of pervasive applications to rapidly place and configure context sources within a Virtual Reality Environment to conduct repeatable evaluations early in the development life cycle. Index Terms ± Pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing, user-centred design and evaluation, 3D virtual environment.

This paper concerns concerns the impact that pervasive computing will have on how we design networking. We identify the pressure points where pervasive computing will push current approaches to their limits, covering both technical and business implications. We use a broad definition of communications technology, to include not only infrastructure equipment and services, but also communications...

The eld of Pervasive Computing has emerged as an active research area in the past few years [8]. Pervasive computing refers to computing environments which contain millions of computing devices or information appliances [7], embodied in the environment we live in (e.g., our cars, watches and clothes, mobile phones, microwave ovens, refrigerators. etc.). These devices interact with us using our ...

In an ideal pervasive computing environment, a large number of connected smart devices are deployed to collaboratively provision seamless services to users. Pervasive computing is enabled by various advanced technologies, particularly wireless technologies and the Internet. It has become a trend for our future lives. A pervasive computing environment can be extremely heterogeneous. We can imagi...