MATA 2003: Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications pp 111-120 | Cite as
Policy-Driven Mobile Agents for Context-Aware Service in Next Generation Networks
Abstract
In order to bring together the different advantages of various wireless technologies and wired networks, solution from service’s perspective is critical. And this kind of integrated services should be context-aware in order to automatically adapt themselves to the changing environment. This paper proposes an all-policy based context-aware service method for next generation networks (NGN). Policies are planned to cover the full context representation through services and the underlying networks. The efficiency of context-aware service provisioning as a result of policy decision is maximized by the introduction of mobile agents. A context-aware service scenario called Super-mother is explored to exemplify this methodology and policy-based context-aware service system architecture. This paper presented part of the work ongoing in European Union IST project CONTEXT.
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Access Point Context Information Mobile Agent Internet Engineer Task Force Policy Decision PointPreview
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