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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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Yang, K., Galis, A. (2003). Policy-Driven Mobile Agents for Context-Aware Service in Next Generation Networks. In: Horlait, E., Magedanz, T., Glitho, R.H. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2881. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39646-8_11
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