Abstract
From a technological point of view, ubiquitous computing is a specific case of distributed computing. However, while the textbook definition for a distributed system is (Tanenbaum and van Steen)
“a collection of independent computers that appear to its users as a single coherent system.”[1]
Ubiquitous systems challenge this definition in various ways. First, some of those systems, wireless sensor networks, are collections of computers, each of which makes no sense as an independent computer.
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Schuster, A., Wolff, R. (2010). Ubiquitous Technologies. In: May, M., Saitta, L. (eds) Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6202. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16392-0_2
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