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DHPC Technical Report DHPC-110

Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing

K.A.Hawick and H.A.James

Archived 10 August 2002.

Abstract

Mobile computing devices have become both affordable and sufficiently sophisticated to allow for both commodity products such as PDAs and their growing use as customisable research tools. In this paper we lay out various lines of research being pursued by our research group in: distributed algorithms for mobile devices in temporary nomad use; use of wireless devices for stationery sensor networks; use of wireless devices for mobile and cooperative robotics; development of middleware and p2p software infrastructures for use of mobile devices in ad hoc networks. We are particularly interested in mobile decision support applications and we review some of the emerging application areas and the support and software infrastructure needed. We consider how such commodity personal devices and the wireless technologies associated with them are enabling a world of ubiquitous computing in support of smart devices and appliances.

Keywords: mobile computing; networks; applications.


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