Abstract:
The availability of smart devices with integrated
GSM/GPRS/WiFi and the rollout of public hotspots allow users
to be always online at reasonable costs. Personalised and
context aware applications will become available in the
forthcoming years due to the wide availability of smart devices
and the interest of telecom operators and service providers to
provide personalised services. For the user to access his
preferred network and services in a particular context we need
to have some mechanisms in place and an infrastructure that
reacts autonomously on behalf of the user. This paper proposes
a solution based on context-aware user profiles and their
associated user preferences. It describes a smart device
centered solution and a prototype has been built for Microsoft
Windows Mobile™ Pocket PCs to validate the ideas.
