Solar: An Open Platform for Context-Aware Mobile Applications

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Solar: An Open Platform for Context-Aware Mobile Applications (2002)

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by Guanling Chen , David Kotz

Venue:	In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2002
Citations:	47 - 5 self

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Chen02solar:an,
    author = {Guanling Chen and David Kotz},
    title = {Solar: An Open Platform for Context-Aware Mobile Applications},
    booktitle = {In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2002},
    year = {2002},
    pages = {41--47}
}

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Abstract

Emerging pervasive computing technologies transform the way we live and work by embedding computation in our surrounding environment. To avoid increasing complexity, and allow the user to concentrate on her tasks, applications in a pervasive computing environment must automatically adapt to their changing context, including the user state and the physical and computational environment in which they run. Solar is a middleware platform to help these "context-aware" applications aggregate desired context fom heterogeneous sources and to locate environmental services depending on the current context. By moving most of the context computation into the infrastructure, Solar allows applications to run on thin mobile clients more effectively. By providing an open framework to enable dynamic injection of context processing modules, Solar shares these modules across many applications, reducing application development cost and network traffic. By distributing these modules across network nodes and reconfiguring the distribution at runtime, Solar achieves parallelism and online load balancing.

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context-aware mobile application open platform many application current context heterogeneous source network traffic solar share middleware platform solar allows application network node online load balancing environmental service computational environment user state context-aware application pervasive computing environment context computation application development cost dynamic injection open framework context processing module thin mobile client

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