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Chapter 13
Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: Trends and Perspectives
The entire framework for the network’s physical components and their functional configuration, including operational principles and procedures.
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Dynamic Ambient Networks with Middleware
Baoying Wang (Waynesburg University, USA) and Rebecca L. Willard (Waynesburg University, USA)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-857-5.ch013
Abstract
Ambient Intelligence is the concept that technology will become a part of everyday living and assist users in multiple tasks. It is a combination and further development of ubiquitous computation, pervasive computation, and multimedia.The technology is sensitive to the actions of humans and it can interact with the human or adjust the surroundings to suit the needs of the users dynamically. All of this is made possible by embedding sensors and computing components inconspicuously into human surroundings. This paper discusses the middleware needed for dynamic ambient intelligence networks and the ambient intelligence network architecture. The bottom-up middleware approach for ambient intelligence is important so the lower layers of all ambient intelligence networks are interchangeable and compatible with other ambient intelligence components. This approach also allows components to be programmed to be compatible with multiple ambient intelligence networks. The network architecture discussed in this paper allows for dynamic networking capabilities for minimal interruptions with changes in computer components.
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Formal Methods in Cross Layer Modeling and Optimization of Wireless Networks: State of the Art and Future Directions
The organization of computer and communications systems which supports communication and co-operation between them.
Published in Chapter: Formal Methods in Cross Layer Modeling and Optimization of Wireless Networks: State of the Art and Future Directions; From: Handbook of Research on Heterogeneous Next Generation Networking: Innovations and Platforms
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Optical Burst Switch as a New Switching Paradigm for High-Speed Internet
Defines the structure and the behavior of the real subsystem that is visible for other interconnected systems, while they are involved in the processing and transfer of information sets.
Published in Chapter: Optical Burst Switch as a New Switching Paradigm for High-Speed Internet; From: Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition
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Survey on Grid Computing on Mobile Consumer Devices
Network architecture is one of the four design dimensions that we use to classify mobile grid systems. We distinguish between infrastructure-based networks and mobile ad hoc networks.
Published in Chapter: Survey on Grid Computing on Mobile Consumer Devices; From: Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications
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Information-Centric Networking
A framework for the specification of a network's physical components, functional organization, configuration, operational principles and procedures along with the data formats used.
Published in Chapter: Information-Centric Networking; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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