Supporting the OSGi service platform with mobility and service distribution in ubiquitous home environments

Computer Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 210-239

  Ibrahim, Abdelgadir ^a   Zhao, Liping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Mobility; OSGi; Service oriented systems; Ubiquitous environments

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SPECIFICATIONS; TERMINOLOGY; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; MOBILITY; OSGI; SERVICE-ORIENTED SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS ENVIRONMENTS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 63349111674     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: 14602067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxn032     Document Type: Article

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