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-In the general research area of pervasive computing and ambient intelligence, our research tends to focus on so-called **mobile networks**. Mobile networks fundamentally differ from traditional, stationary networks in the following two ways:
-  - Whereas traditional distributed systems are often composed of heavyweight, computationally intensive nodes, mobile networks tend to consist of small, computationally scarce and **mobile** devices. A device may be mobile simply because it is small (e.g. a cell phone) or because it is embedded in another mobile devices (e.g. a car's on-board computer).
-  - In traditional distributed systems, components are interconnected via fast, wired, reliable communication links. In a mobile network, connections are usually **wireless**, slower and less reliable. Moreover, the biggest consequence of the wireless connections is that the communication //range// of devices becomes limited.
-Given these unavoidable, fundamental properties of mobile network, our research is founded on the observation of a number of so-called //hardware phenomena//: phenomena which have a profound impact on software, and which cannot be hidden from either developer or end-user because they are innate to the underlying hardware. The hardware phenomena we observe are:
-  * **Natural Concurrency**:
-  * **Autonomous Devices**:
-  * **Volatile Connections**:
-  * **Ambient Resources**:

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