Developing Pervasive Services for Future Telecommunication Networks

Abstract

Pervasive computing promises a new and radically improved paradigm for user interaction with services and applications. Although mainstream research and development in this area is focused on user interaction aspects, the infrastructure for providing such a demanding paradigm needs to be in place before we can hope for widespread usage of pervasive services. The IST project Daidalos aims at integrating pervasive computing with global telecommunication networks. Through this integration, it will be possible to utilize existing and future heterogeneous networks for developing and deploying user-friendly pervasive services for the European market. This paper presents Daidalos' view of pervasive computing. It discusses how Daidalos pervasive computing platform, integrated with a heterogeneous all-IP network, provides a promising approach to developing interoperable pervasive services.