Supporting mobile sessions across pervasive smart space environments

Pervasive computing is at an exciting stage of its evolution, with an increasing number of devices of various shapes and sizes appearing in our everyday surroundings. In such an environment, the need to utilise application sessions within and across device rich spaces becomes apparent. This paper introduces the concept of mobile sessions for smart space environments, by outlining a candidate framework, OTIS (object transfer in smart -spaces), that specifically addresses session transfer in smart space environments, such as intelligent buildings. Having done this we compare OTIS to the AURA and GAIA infrastructures, which most closely relate to our work. Finally we summarise the main findings of our research and outline our plans for taking this work forward.