"This book combines the fundamental methods, algorithms, and concepts of pervasive computing with current innovations and solutions to emerging challenges. It systemically covers such topics as network and application scalability, wireless network connectivity, adaptability and "context-aware"...

Mobile phones have spread around the developing world at an amazing speed. Their proliferation has given rise to numerous mobile phone-enabled services (m-services) in the areas of health, education, agriculture and entertainment. However, to date many of these services are barely scratching the...

The high-rise demand for wireless communication and its customized services has experienced tremendous growth over the last decades. This growth is expected to continue relentlessly with addition of more traffic load as signaling storms. This consumes a significant amount of network resources,...