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The concept of Ambient Networks (AN) aims at enabling the co-operation between heterogeneous networks on demand, in order to provide ubiquitous connectivity to end-users. This could be achieved by seamlessly incorporating context-awareness which plays a vital role in supporting autonomic decision making in ANs, while giving rise to new types of applications and services. Modeling and disseminating contextual information in a rapidly changing time-constrained heterogeneous environment, transparently to the potential users, is a challenge. This paper discusses these complications with an evaluation of the existing context modeling and dissemination approaches, with respect to ambient networking requirements.
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Balakrishnan, D., El Barachi, M., Karmouch, A., Glitho, R. (2005). Challenges in Modeling and Disseminating Context Information in Ambient Networks. In: Magedanz, T., Karmouch, A., Pierre, S., Venieris, I. (eds) Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications. MATA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11569510_4
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