Summary

Pervasive computing provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. Computational power will be available everywhere. Mobile and stationary devices will dynamically connect and coordinate to seamlessly help users in accomplishing their tasks. However, for this vision to become a reality, developers must build applications that constantly adapt to a highly dynamic computing environment. To make the developers' task feasible, we are building a system architecture for pervasive computing, called one.world. Our architecture provides an integrated and comprehensive framework for building pervasive applications. It includes a set of services, such as service discovery, checkpointing, and migration, that help to structure applications and directly simplify the task of coping with constant change.


Selected Papers

Robert Grimm, Janet Davis, Eric Lemar, Adam MacBeth, Steven Swanson, Thomas Anderson, Brian Bershad, Gaetano Borriello, Steven Gribble, and David Wetherall. System support for pervasive applications (PDF, 1,777 KB). ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 22(4):421-486, November 2004.

Robert Grimm, Janet Davis, Ben Hendrickson, Eric Lemar, Adam MacBeth, Steven Swanson, Tom Anderson, Brian Bershad, Gaetano Borriello, Steven Gribble, David Wetherall. Systems directions for pervasive computing (PDF, 26 KB). In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII), pages 147-151, Elmau, Germany, May 2001. Talk slides (PDF, 166 KB).


Further Information

• All papers and presentations
• Some example application scenarios
• The public release – The last released version is 0.7.1.
  • The development setup
  • Configuration parameters
  • The FAQ
  • The API documentation (reflecting release 0.7.1)
  • The one.world tutorial, part I and part II
  • Release notes
  • Download the binary release and API documentation
  • Download the source release
• CSE 490dp: Building distributed and pervasive applications
• Labscape, which is using one.world
• Our exploration of Microsoft's C#
• Related work
• Sightings