The Mobility-Aware Connectivity (MAC) Project |
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we encourage to visit: The MACHINE Project web-site http://lia.deis.unibo.it/research/MACHINE/The diffusion of wireless terminals with multiple communication interfaces, e.g., IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, and UMTS on the same device, is pushing towards the necessity of middleware solutions to dynamically and seamlessly select the proper connectivity technology to exploit at any time. That selection should consider several elements, at very different abstraction layers, from application bandwidth to energy consumption requirements, from connectivity costs to user preferences, i.e., it should be context-dependent. Here we present our context-aware MAC (Mobility-Aware Connectivity) middleware for multi-interface wireless terminals that enables the dynamic determination and selection of the most suitable interface and connectivity provider among the available ones. MAC novelty is primarily in two crucial challenging elements.
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9-nov-09 |