Aims and Scopes

Pervasive computing has emerged as a new computing and communication environment with the aim of providing services anytime and anywhere for everyone. To facilitate resource sharing and support group communications, pervasive computing devices should be able to support ad hoc communications and networking. With ad hoc communications, seamless and transparent access to services and applications can be achieved while providing mechanisms for establishing spontaneous and interactive networking among communicating entities. Despite considerable progress in mobile computing and wireless communication technologies, new user demands and emerging applications introduce challenges in several areas including security, privacy, processing, auto configuration, scalability, software infrastructure, communication models and networking infrastructure. To support flexibility and unlimited mobility, services and applications should adapt to heterogeneous networking environment supporting multihop communication in hybrid wired/wireless environment.

This symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to present their current research results and discuss future trends in pervasive computing and ad hoc communications.

Topic of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Pervasive computing architectures
Wearable computers
Smart devices and smart spaces
Location-dependent and personalized applications
Service discovery mechanisms
Agent technologies
Mobility management
Sensors and actuators
Resource management
Embedded systems
Device and service interaction
Location-aware services
Middleware for pervasive computing
Middleware for ad hoc computing
Hardware, OS and convergence issues
Security and privacy issues for pervasive computing systems
Positioning and tracking technologies
Identification and authentication technologies
Social Issues and Implications of pervasive computing
Data management infrastructure and algorithms
Caching and prefetching strategies
Resource discovery
Ad hoc communication and networking
Group communication and management
Ad hoc computing
User interfaces and interaction models
Prototyping and performance evaluation
Personal Area networks
Integration of wired and wireless networks
Enabling technologies such as Bluetooth, 802.11, 802.15, 802,16, and 802.20
Context based and implicit computing
Ad hoc networking protocols and service discovery
Wireless Mesh Network

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