Grid computing and pervasive computing have affirmed respectively as the paradigm for high performance computing and the paradigm for user-friendly computing. The conjunction of such paradigms are now generating a new one: the Pervasive Grid Computing. This paper presents a middleware for pervasive grid applications. It consists of a set of basic services that aim to enhance classic grid enviro...

Recent advances in the area of mobile ad hoc computing and pervasive computing have driven the emergence of new challenges. For example, the “Intelligent Environment” or “Smart Environment” has become one of the key research areas in the pervasive computing arena. Mobile ad hoc scenarios also include time-critical applications such as an autonomous vehicle system in which vehicles are able to o...

The vision of Pervasive Computing is that every device we communicate today has become a part of everyday objects, augmented with information services. Though there are a number of frameworks is been developed for security of smart systems, there is still space for research in the field of security of these systems. User privacy and Trust needs more concentration in a pervasive environment. Con...

Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed as paradigms for high performance computing and for user-friendly computing respectively. These two separate worlds, however, can now interact each other in such a way that both pervasive and grid computing communities can benefit from integrating the two paradigms into a whole. This conjunction is already taking place to ...

Pervasive computing world implies privacy, particularly the bad publicity around invasions of privacy, could block the incredible potential of pervasive computing. A brief introduction of the understanding of privacy, and how they relate to the world of pervasive computing are provided in this paper. With the pseudonyms and Bit Commitment techniques, a Security Protocol— SPEP is designed and bu...

Pervasive computing means "existing everywhere". It is the growing trend towards embedding microprocessors in everyday objects so they can communicate information. Due to this, all the embedded and mobile computing devices are becoming more and more pervasive and dynamically adaptive. In this paper we have described how a pervasive computing model helps to achieve dynamic adaptation w...

-Pervasive computing integrates digital and physical devices. Users can access digital data and applications from the environment as easily as accessing them through their computers. The system has to be flexible to various kinds of faults and should be able to function even though the fault occurs. This paper deals with various classes of failures, their implication to pervasive computing, the...