It is becoming quite clear that there will be important technological advances in - bile and wireless connectivity, known as third-/fourth-generation (3G and 4G) mobile telecommunications systems. As a result we will be surrounded by ever-growing m- tidomain (technical and administrative) heterogeneous communications in both wired and wireless networks. This resulting environment deals with communication in m- tizoned networks, where people, devices, appliances and servers are connected to each other via different kinds of networks. Networks will be pervasive, ubiquitous, multis- vice, multioperatorand multiaccess. The mobility trend will also be spurred forward by the growing availability of mobile-enabled handheld devices. Mobile systems are expected to provide mobile users with cost-effective, secure, yet ubiquitous service access anywhere and anytime. Users will then continue to enjoy the new-found freedom mobile access provides and will have increasingly high exp- tations of mobility-aware applications that should be capable of seamlessly supporting the mobile lifestyle. The papers in this volume discuss issues from models, platforms, and architectures for mobility-aware systems to security, mobile agent technologies, sensitive com- nications, context awareness, mobile applications and management. They cover both practical experience and novel research ideas and concepts.
Editors and Affiliations
Multimedia & Mobile Agent Research Laboratory, School of Information Technology & Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Ahmed Karmouch
Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa
Larry Korba
State University of Campinas, Brazil
Edmundo R. M. Madeira
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications
Book Subtitle: First International Workshop, MATA 2004, Florianopolis, Brazil, October 20-22, 2004. Proceedings
Editors: Ahmed Karmouch, Larry Korba, Edmundo R. M. Madeira
