A survey of context data distribution for mobile ubiquitous systems

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Bellavista, Paolo ^a   Corradi, Antonio ^a   Fanelli, Mario ^a   Foschini, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context; Context access; Context data distribution; Context data distribution infrastructure; Context aware; Context awareness; QoC; Quality of context; Research challenge; Survey; Ubiquitous system

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT; CONTEXT ACCESS; CONTEXT DATA; CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTEXT-AWARENESS; QOC; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; UBIQUITOUS SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SERVICES; MIDDLEWARE; RESEARCH; SURVEYS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84866512143     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2333112.2333119     Document Type: Review

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