A Context-Aware Communication Platform for Smart Objects

Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2004

Frank Siegemund

DOI10.1007/978-3-540-24646-6_5

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TL;DR

A communication platform for smart objects that takes an object’s current real-world context into account and adapts networking structures accordingly and evaluates the platform on the basis of a concrete implementation on an embedded device platform.

Abstract

When smart objects participate in context-aware applications, changes in their real-world environment can have a significant impact on underlying networking structures. This paper presents a communication platform for smart objects that takes an object's current real-world context into account and adapts networking structures accordingly. The platform provides (1) mechanisms for specifying and implementing context-aware communication services, (2) a tuplespace-based communication abstraction for inter-object collaboration, and (3) support for linking communication and context-recognition layers. For specifying context-aware communication services, a high-level description language, called SICL, and a compiler that generates corresponding code for smart objects were realized. The tuplespace-based infrastructure layer for inter-object collaboration hides low-level communication issues from higher layers and facilitates collaborative context recognition between cooperating objects. The paper also presents examples of context-aware communication services and evaluates the platform on the basis of a concrete implementation on an embedded device platform.

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