Handbook of Mobile Systems Applications and Services

Chapter 8

Context-Aware Middleware for Supporting Mobile Applications and Services

Wenwei Xue and Hung Keng Pung

Contents

8.1  Introduction

8.2  Architecture of Context-Aware Middleware

8.2.1  Context Source Layer

8.2.2  Context Acquisition Layer

8.2.3  Context Processing Layer

8.2.4  Service Management Layer

8.2.5  Application Layer

8.3  Taxonomy of Context-Aware Middleware

8.3.1  System Architecture

8.3.2  Context Modeling

8.3.3  Context Reasoning

8.3.4  Context Query Language

8.3.5  Context Storage

8.3.6  Security and Privacy

8.3.7  Quality ...