Title :
A mobile agent-based framework for location-based services
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
A general-purpose framework for building and managing location-aware applications in ubiquitous computing environments is described. The goal of the framework is to provide people, places, and things with computational functionalities to support and annotate them. Using RFID-based location-tracking systems, the framework can navigate Java-based mobile agents to stationary or mobile computers near the locations of the entities and places to which the agents are attached, even when the locations change. The framework enable a mobile user to directly access his/her personalized services from stationary computing devices in the environment or from his/her portable computing devices.
Keywords :
Java; mobile agents; mobile computing; portable computers; tracking; Java-based mobile agent; RFID-based location-tracking system; location-aware application; mobile agent-based framework; mobile computer; mobile user; portable computing device; radio frequency identification; stationary computing device; ubiquitous computing; Application software; Mobile agents; Mobile computing; Navigation; Pervasive computing; Physics computing; Portable computers; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency identification; Ubiquitous computing;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8533-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2004.1312733