This paper presents a novel autonomic management framework for user-centric networks.
The framework assumes users are directly involved, or have direct interest, on their …

Background The UbiCare Centre: Ubiquitous Computing for Healthcare in the Community is
based at Imperial College London and consists of a number of collaborative projects funded …

The increasing growth of mobile devices in the whole world, and the forecasts for the coming
years has been indicated by several reports. Nonetheless, this need for ubiquitous …

Abstract A Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) has no fixed infrastructure, and is generally
composed of a dynamic set of cooperative peers. These peers share their wireless …

This article proposed the authentication protocol for peer-to-peer resource sharing
community. The proposed protocol does not require a priori information for generating and …

The age of Ubiquitous Computing is approaching fast: most people in the UK over the age of
8 carry mobile phones [5], which are becoming increasingly sophisticated interactive …

The objective of the PICOS project in general is to advance state of the art technologies that
provide privacy-enhanced identity and trust management features within complex …

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains the papers accepted
for presentation at the Second International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure …

Modern networks are intended to support collaborations between large numbers of
autonomous entities. A coalition provides a virtual space across a network that allows its …

Pervasive or ubiquitous computing systems consist of large numbers of 'invisible'computers
embedded into the environment which may interact with mobile users or form intelligent …