Pervasive computing aims in increasing people's productivity and simplifing their everyday chores at work and at home (and even in between), anywhere and anytime, outdoors and indoors, by availing, whenever needed, the desired information to one's personal digital device.

Our research group is focusing on the key communication-related enablers that will permit the pervasive computing objectives to materialize. These enablers span a wide range of topics including link layer and network layer issues, service discovery and creation, user interfaces, hidden and unconscious computing, etc. In particular, our research is centered (not exclusively nor in any particular order) around the following areas:

• link: low cost, wireless link technologies, primarily Bluetooth, an open industry specification for short range RF-based communications, to the development of which our group has heavily contributed
• network: networking-in-the-small: developing self-contained communication modules allowing a number of diverse personal computing devices to become members of spontaneously created, self-organized, pervasive computing communities
• user experience: develop technologies that would allow users to securely interact focusing only on the services they would like to exploit rather than how to find them, connect them, and access them.