TY  - JOUR
T1  - Experimenting with Floating Content in an Office Setting
A1  - Rizzo, Gianluca
A1  - Marsan, Marco G Ajmone
A1  - Ali, Shahzad
A1  - vincenzo mancuso
JA  - IEEE Communications Magazine
Y1  - 2014
VL  - 52
IS  - 6
N1  - special issue: context-aware networking and communications
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6829944
KW  - Androids Bluetooth Context-aware services Humanoid robots IEEE 802.11 Standards Mobile communication Wireless sensor networks
N2  - The growing ubiquity and pervasiveness of sensors and smart devices, with the consequent availability of a large amount of "local" and contextualized information, are giving rise to a wealth of "context-aware" applications and services. In this work we consider an opportunistic communication scheme called Floating Content (FC), which was specifically designed for serverless distributed context-aware applications. So far, the performance analysis of FC, and in particular of content lifetime and availability, was based on simplified system models and fluid system analysis. The resulting performance estimates did not account for the effects of propagation characteristics, mobility patterns, and communication protocols, all factors known to significantly affect the performance of opportunistic communication schemes. This article studies the main issues related to the performance of FC service in a realistic office setting through a first experimental evaluation of a mobile app for Android devices. Our experimental results confirm the feasibility of FC service for supporting practical context-aware mobile applications in office settings.
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