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Context-awareness for mobile sensing: a survey and future directions

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posted on 2023-06-08, 19:44 authored by Ozgur Yurur, Chi Harold Liu, Zhengguo ShengZhengguo Sheng, Victor C M Leung, Wilfrido Moreno, Kin K Leung
The evolution of smartphones together with increasing computational power have empowered developers to create innovative context-aware applications for recognizing user related social and cognitive activities in any situation and at any location. The existence and awareness of the context provides the capability of being conscious of physical environments or situations around mobile device users. This allows network services to respond proactively and intelligently based on such awareness. The key idea behind context-aware applications is to encourage users to collect, analyze and share local sensory knowledge in the purpose for a large scale community use by creating a smart network. The desired network is capable of making autonomous logical decisions to actuate environmental objects, and also assist individuals. However, many open challenges remain, which are mostly arisen due to the middleware services provided in mobile devices have limited resources in terms of power, memory and bandwidth. Thus, it becomes critically important to study how the drawbacks can be elaborated and resolved, and at the same time better understand the opportunities for the research community to contribute to the context-awareness. To this end, this paper surveys the literature over the period of 1991-2014 from the emerging concepts to applications of context-awareness in mobile platforms by providing up-to-date research and future research directions. Moreover, it points out the challenges faced in this regard and enlighten them by proposing possible solutions.

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IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

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1553-877X

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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1

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18

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68-93

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2015-01-23

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2015-01-23

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2015-01-23

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