A survey on context-aware mobile and wireless networking: On networking and computing environments' integration

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 362-386

  Makris, Prodromos ^a   Skoutas, Dimitrios N ^a   Skianis, Charalabos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Context Awareness; Mobile and Wireless Networks; Mobile Cloud Computing; Pervasive Computing; Uncertainty Management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; CONTEXT-AWARE; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; NETWORKING SYSTEMS; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKING; PRECISE DEFINITION; RECENT RESEARCHES; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; RESEARCH TRENDS; UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT; WIRELESS NETWORKING;

INTEGRATION; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING; SURVEYS; TAXONOMIES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84873722362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2012.040912.00180     Document Type: Article

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