An Extensible Framework for Context-aware Communication Management Using Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Key: SKR+08-1
Author: Johannes Schmitt, Matthias Kropff, Andreas Reinhardt, Matthias Hollick, Christian Schäfer, Frank Remetter, Ralf Steinmetz
Date: November 2008
Kind: @techreport
Abstract: This work presents the communication aspects of the Context Framework, which is an extensible framework featuring client and server functions building a platform for distributed provisioning, aggregation, evaluation and usage of information in heterogeneous systems. The main intention behind the evaluation of the gathered information about the context of an entity is to improve communication processes like call routing. Every device, which is equipped with some kind of network interface can be potentially employed as information source. Very good examples are mobile phones, computers or home automation systems. These devices can be considered as sensors for the information they provide (e.g. calendar, position, movement, activity, address book). Using these sensors, the framework can autonomously determine a person's situation in order to enable Context-aware Communication Management. Since the system parts for the context evaluation were presented previously, this work focusses on the information acquisition from the sensors.
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