Title : 
On the definition and relevance of context-awareness in Personal Networks
         
        
            Author : 
Yaiz, Rachid Ait ; Selgert, Franklin ; Hartog, Frank Den
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
TNO, Delft
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Personal networks (PNs) enable users to be connected with their devices and services at any time and any place. Context-awareness will further enrich PNs. This paper shows some examples, presents definitions of context and context-awareness for PNs, and introduces a high-level architecture for context-awareness that is tailored to PNs
         
        
            Keywords : 
mobile radio; personal area networks; telecommunication services; high-level architecture; network services; personal network context-awareness; Airports; Context; Delay; Internet; Mobile handsets; Personal digital assistants; Portable computers; RFID tags; Space technology; Switches;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems - Workshops, 2006. 3rd Annual International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Jose, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-9791-6
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
0-7803-9792-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MOBIQW.2006.361759