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Context-awareness is a technology to facilitate information acquisition and execution by supporting interoperability between users and devices based on users’ context. In this paper, we design and implement a middleware and a context server for dealing with context-aware applications in pervasive computing. The middleware plays an important role in recognizing a moving node with mobility by using a Bluetooth wireless communication technology as well as in executing an appropriate execution module according to the context acquired from a context server. In addition, the context server functions as a manager that efficiently stores into the database server context information, such as user’s current status, physical environment, and resources of a computing system. To verify the usefulness of the middleware and the context server, we finally develop our context-aware application system which provides users with a music playing service in pervasive computing environment.
This work is financially supported by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development(MOE), the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy(MOCIE) and the Ministry of Labor(MOLAB) though the fostering project of the Lab of Excellency.
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Chang, JW., Kim, YK. (2006). Design and Implementation of Middleware and Context Server for Context-Awareness. In: Gerndt, M., Kranzlmüller, D. (eds) High Performance Computing and Communications. HPCC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11847366_50
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