Policy-driven mobile agents for context-aware service in next generation networks

In order to bring together the different advantages of various wireless technologies and wired networks, solution from service's perspective is critical. And this kind of integrated services should be context-aware in order to automatically adapt themselves to the changing environment. This paper proposes an all-policy based context-aware service method for next generation networks (NGN). Policies are planned to cover the full context representation through services and the underlying networks. The efficiency of context-aware service provisioning as a result of policy decision is maximized by the introduction of mobile agents. A context-aware service scenario called Super-mother is explored to exemplify this methodology and policy-based context-aware service system architecture. This paper presented pan of the work ongoing in European Union IST project CONTEXT.