Pervasive computing is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. As opposed to the desktop paradigm, in which a single user consciously engages a single device for a specialized purpose, someone "using" pervasive computing engages many computational devices and systems simultaneously, i...

Future pervasive environments are characterized by non-fixed architectures made of users and ubiquitous computers. They will be shaped by pervasive client downloads, i.e. new (untrusted) applications will be dynamically downloaded to make a better use of the computational power available in the ubiquitous computing environment. To address the challenges of this paradigm we propose the notion of...

In this paper, design of framework architecture of pervasive computing system providing seamless inter space interactions between private and public smart spaces is presented. The seamless inter space interaction issues are related to establishing user’s service environment by allocating relevant resources in a new location where there are no prior settings for the user or where there are curre...

Pervasive computing environments aim at providing users with advanced services, dynamically composed our of networked services. In these open environments, availability of specific networked service instances cannot be guaranteed over time as users move and services leave and join the network accordingly. A major challenge in pervasive environments is thus to maintain services functionalities d...

Many interesting pervasive applications require the maintenance of state, but few pervasive computing systems provide a compelling system for managing such state. Although conventional storage abstractions can fill some of these needs, the unique character of the pervasive environment suggests slightly different answers. Pervasive applications often have to work with data in forms they were not...

Proliferation of small handheld devices and wireless technologies has kindled the phenomenon of pervasive computing. Healthcare, being a prime concern for every society, has been considered as an ideal setting for deployment of this technology. Pervasive healthcare aims to improve patient independent living and quality of life and pay special attention to issues of security, privacy, transparen...