Chapter 4

Nomadic service discovery in smart cities

M. Stolikj
J.J. Lukkien
P.J.L. Cuijpers
N. Buchina    Department of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Abstract

Smart cities blend the boundaries between infrastructure and consumer devices, and rely on their cooperation for making new applications possible. This poses a challenge, as extremely resource-constrained devices such as ubiquitous sensors and actuators need to communicate with more powerful devices, such as smartphones and servers. Users move through this infrastructure, and their devices need to find and use services based on their current location. In this chapter, we focus on these interoperability issues on the service discovery (SD) ...

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