A unifying perspective on context-aware evaluation and management of heterogeneous wireless connectivity

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 337-357

  Bellavista, Paolo ^a   Corradi, Antonio ^a   Giannelli, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Always Best Connected; Autonomic Network Management; Context aware Services; Middleware; Mobile Computing; Wireless Networks

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION LAYER; ALWAYS BEST CONNECTED; AUTONOMIC NETWORK MANAGEMENT; BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; CLASSIFICATION TOOL; CONNECTIVITY MANAGEMENT; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTEXT-AWARE SERVICES; EVALUATION PROCESS; GROWING MARKETS; NETWORK CONGESTIONS; ORIGINAL MODEL; PRIMARY DESIGN; RESEARCH FIELDS; SOLUTION ARCHITECTURES; WIRELESS CONNECTIVITIES; WIRELESS DEVICES;

ABSTRACTING; CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; INFORMATION SERVICES; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; TAXONOMIES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WI-FI; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80053291968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2011.060710.00060     Document Type: Article

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