Supporting Context-Aware Computing in Ad Hoc Mobile Environments

Context awareness is important for many cooperation and coordination scenarios in ad hoc mobile environments. Developing context-aware applications in a dynamic and volatile ad hoc mobile setting is a complex task. The goal of this proposal is to investigate implications of ad hoc mobility on application design and development, to explore design principles and general design frameworks, and to deliver a middleware to facilitate application development for ad hoc mobile systems. The middleware aims to provide a set of toolkits and services for e#cient and reliable information discovery and dissemination in ad hoc mobile environments. We believe this research e#ort will result in new insights, algorithms and design principles much needed in this area.