Track:
Software Technology
Minitrack:
Distributed Systems for Ubiquitous Computing
Computers of all shapes, sizes, power and functionality
are ubiquitous. This ubiquity is an unstoppable market force
placing computation in nearly every aspect of our lives, and more
and more of these systems have Internet connectivity. We are
standing on a threshold that, when crossed, will leave each of us
at least virtually always connected to Internet services, be it
our set top box or satellite receiver downloading videos; the
alarm systems in our homes sending alerts and streaming video to
our preferred hand-held device; or an RFID scanner reading our
passports and comparing the read data to a global data base. The
rapid deployment of ubiquitous systems will surely outpace the
efforts of the research community’s careful examination of its
foundations, and the issues it raises among which is the
“Pandora’s Box” of personal security. This minitrack will be open
to exploring both the research and deployment aspects of this
technology.
Each of the following technical areas as they relate to
“Distributed Systems for Ubiquitous Computing” are among the
topics that will be covered in this minitrack:
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Personal security;
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Identity and single-sign-on;
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Platforms for the
deployment of ubiquitous Internet services;
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Peer-to-peer
protocols, decentralized large scale distributed systems, and
overlay networks;
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User Interfaces and ease-of-use;
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Quality of
Service;
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Quality Assurance of large, distributed systems;
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Any-Device-to-Any-Device communication;
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Presence and availability;
and geo-localization.
Mini-track Co-chairs:
William J. Yeager (Primary Contact)
620 Berkeley Avenue
Menlo Park, CA. 94025,
Phone: 650-329-8873
FAX: 650-323-1983
Email: byeager@fastmail.net
Ali Ghodsi
KTH/Royal Institute of Technology and Swedish Institute of
Computer Science (SICS)
Box 1263
S-164 29 KISTA, Sweden
Phone: +46-8-633-1599
Fax: +46-8-751-7230
Email: ali@sics.se
