Pervasive and Mobile Computing

About the journal

Pervasive computing, often synonymously called ubiquitous computing, is an emerging field of research that brings in revolutionary paradigms for computing models in the 21st century. Tremendous developments in such technologies as wireless communications and networking, mobile computing and handheld devices, embedded systems, wearable computers, sensors, RFID tags, smart spaces, middleware, software agents, and the like, have led to the evolution of pervasive computing platforms as natural successor of mobile computing systems. The goal of pervasive computing is to create ambient intelligence where network devices embedded in the environment provide unobtrusive connectivity and services all the time, thus improving human experience and quality of life without explicit awareness of the underlying communications and computing technologies. In this environment, the world around us (e.g., key chains, coffee mugs, computers, appliances, cars, homes, offices, cities, and the human body) is interconnected as pervasive network of intelligent devices that cooperatively and autonomously collect, process and transport information, in order to adapt to the associated context and activity.

Articles

• Sérgio Lopes, José M. N. Vieira, João Reis, Daniel Albuquerque, Nuno B. Carvalho. Accurate Smartphone Indoor Positioning using a WSN Infrastructure and Non-Invasive Audio for TDoA Estimation. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 20, p. 29-46, July 2015

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