On Peer-to-Peer Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments

Yelena Yesha
University of Maryland Baltimore County

A pervasive computing environment represents a resource-rich, data-intensive environment where users and devices, including handhelds, wearables, computers in vehicles, computers embedded in the physical infrastructure, and (nano)sensors, are mobile and continuously exchange data. In order to exploit the available resources, mobile devices must act as semi-autonomous, self-describing, highly interactive and adaptive peers that employ cross-layer interaction between their data management and communication layers for inferring and expressing information they need, and for obtaining and storing such information by pro-actively interacting with other devices in their vicinity using available short-range ad-hoc networking technologies.