Zone-Aware Service Platform: A New Concept of Context-Aware Networking and Communications for Smart-Home Sustainability

Jinsung Byun, Sanguk Park, Keonhee Cho and Sehyun Park
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Jinsung Byun: Defense Agency for Technology and Quality, Jinju 52851, Korea
Sanguk Park: School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea
Keonhee Cho: School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea
Sehyun Park: School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Recent advances in networking and communications removed the restrictions of time and space in information services. Context-aware service systems can support the predefined services in accordance with user requests regardless of time and space. However, due to their architectural limitations, the recent systems are not so flexible to provide device-independent services by multiple service providers. Recently, researchers have focused on a new service paradigm characterized by high mobility, service continuity, and green characteristics. In line with these efforts, improved context-aware service platforms have been suggested to make the platform possible to manage the contexts to provide the adaptive services for multi-user and locations. However, this platform can only support limited continuity and mobility. In other words, the existing system cannot support seamless service provision among different service providers with respect to the changes of mobility, situation, device, and network. Furthermore, the existing context-aware service platform is significant reliance on always-on infrastructure, which leads to great amounts of energy consumption inevitably. Therefore, we subsequently propose a new concept of context-aware networking and communications, namely a zone-aware service platform. The proposed platform autonomously reconfigures the infrastructure and maintains a service session interacting with the middleware to support cost- and energy-efficient pervasive services for smart-home sustainability.

Keywords: context-aware networking and communications; ubiquitous computing; dynamic resource management; zone-aware service platform; smart-home sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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