Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications

It is becoming quite clear that there will be important technological advances in - bile and wireless connectivity, known as third-/fourth-generation (3G and 4G) mobile telecommunications systems. As a result we will be surrounded by ever-growing m- tidomain (technical and administrative) heterogeneous communications in both wired and wireless networks. This resulting environment deals with communication in m- tizoned networks, where people, devices, appliances and servers are connected to each other via different kinds of networks. Networks will be pervasive, ubiquitous, multis- vice, multioperatorand multiaccess. The mobility trend will also be spurred forward by the growing availability of mobile-enabled handheld devices. Mobile systems are expected to provide mobile users with cost-effective, secure, yet ubiquitous service access anywhere and anytime. Users will then continue to enjoy the new-found freedom mobile access provides and will have increasingly high exp- tations of mobility-aware applications that should be capable of seamlessly supporting the mobile lifestyle. The papers in this volume discuss issues from models, platforms, and architectures for mobility-aware systems to security, mobile agent technologies, sensitive com- nications, context awareness, mobile applications and management. They cover both practical experience and novel research ideas and concepts.

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Inhalt
Context-Aware Support for Mobile Systems.- Mobility Prediction for Mobile Agent-Based Service Continuity in the Wireless Internet.- Development Methodology for Location-Aware Mobile Agent.- Distributed Shared Contexts.- Support for Context-Aware Collaboration.- Context-Aware Applications and Networks.- Building Policy-Based Context Aware Applications for Mobile Environments.- Contextware Research Challenges in Ambient Networks.- Awareness on Mobile Groupware Systems.- ICoMP: A Mobile Portal Model Based on Reflective Middleware and Mobile Agents.- Service and Network Management.- Configuration Management for Networked Reconfigurable Embedded Devices.- A Programmable Network Enabling Content Adaptation.- Agents Technology Extended with Mobile Devices.- Agent Migration as an Optional Service in an Extendable Agent Toolkit Architecture.- Grid and Agent Technologies in Mobile Environment.- Remote Database Administration in Mobile Computational Environments.- MobiGrid.- Negotiation Process for Resource Allocation in Grid Using a Multi-agent System.- Mobile Agent Oriented Software Engineering (MAOSE).- Sensor Technologies.- A Probabilistic Transmission Control Scheme for Low Power Consumption in Sensor Networks.- Designing a Self-organizing Wireless Sensor Network.- Invited Paper.- Ambient Networks Management Challenges and Approaches.- Security Issues.- Scalability, Security Technologies and Mobile Applications.- Detecting and Proving Manipulation Attacks in Mobile Agent Systems.- MASS: A Mobile Agent Security Scheme for the Creation of Virtual Enterprises.- APHIDS: A Mobile Agent-Based Programmable Hybrid Intrusion Detection System.- Optimistic Blinded-Key Signatures for ElGamal and Related Schemes.- A Secure Framework for User Privacy in Heterogeneous Location Networks.- PEARL: A PErformance evaluAtor of cRyptographic aLgorithms for Mobile Devices.- Performance and QoS.- On the Performance of Distributed Search by Mobile Agents.- On the Feasibility of Mobile Video Services for IEEE 802.11b Multicast Networks.- An Analytical Model for Throughput of IEEE 802.11e EDCA.- Mobility Aware Systems and Services.- Introducing IP Domain Flexible Middleware Stacks for Multicast Multimedia Distribution in Heterogeneous Environments.- Mobile Tourist Guide Services with Software Agents.- Design of a Tourist Driven Bandwidth Determined MultiModal Mobile Presentation System.- Agent Technology and Applications.- AgentViz: A Visualization System for Mobile Agents.- JavaSpace: When Agents Meet Peers.- Identifying and Documenting Test Patterns from Mobile Agent Design Patterns.- A Pattern Oriented Mobile Agent Framework for Mobile Computing.