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Piecewise Network Awareness Service for Wireless/Mobile Pervasive Computing

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This paper presents a piecewise framework for network awareness service (NAS) for wireless/mobile pervasive computing. We investigate how piecewise consideration of wired and wireless elements of the framework architecture benefits service advertisement and discovery and network-awareness techniques. We also discuss scalability of the NAS framework with respect to platform computing capabilities. The framework is suitable for a wide range of computing devices, from powerful ones with multi-tasking operating systems (OS) to small ones with lightweight OS. Case studies applying the NAS framework to sensor monitoring in home networks and data streaming in pervasive multimedia computing are presented. The analytical results on the performance of the NAS framework in these case studies show that it has significant advantages over traditional network-awareness frameworks in terms of reducing wireless bandwidth consumption and saving battery energy of mobile devices.

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Cheng, L., Marsic, I. Piecewise Network Awareness Service for Wireless/Mobile Pervasive Computing. Mobile Networks and Applications 7, 269–278 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015459227426

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