TOWARDS PERVASIVE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS WITH CLOUD SERVICES

Towards Pervasive Computing Environments with Cloud Services

Pervasive computing aims at creating environments saturated with embedded and portable computing devices surrounding the users and providing them with many interesting services. It has been gradually applied into our everyday life and its applications are becoming more and more extensive day by day. However, exploiting its full potential is difficult due to some inherent problems such as limite...

Services in Pervasive Computing Environments: from Design to Delivery

ii SUMMARY The work presented in this thesis is based on the assumption that modern computer technologies are already potentially pervasive: CPUs are embedded in any sort of device; RAM and storage memory of a modern PDA is comparable to those of a ten years ago Unix workstation; Wi-Fi, GPRS, UMTS are leveraging the development of the wireless Internet. Nevertheless, computing is not pervasive ...

Services in Pervasive Computing Environments: from Design to Delivery

Cloud Computing and Software Agents: Towards Cloud Intelligent Services

Cloud computing systems provide large-scale infrastructures for high-performance computing that are “elastic” since they are able to adapt to user and application needs. Clouds are used through a service-oriented interface that implements the *-as-a-service paradigm to offer Cloud services on demand. This paper discusses Cloud computing models and architectures, their use in parallel and distri...

Towards Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments

The paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for pervasive environments. The protocol is based on the concepts of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and group-based intelligent forwarding of service requests. It does not require a service to be registered with a registry or lookup server. Services are described using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). We exploit t...