K-Trek: P2P Knowledge Management in wireless mobile networks

We introduce a notion of context awareness, derived from work on so-called distributed knowledge management, based on data accumulated and categorized by users during an extended period of time and matched against data proposed by local sources of information. This notion is exploited by an architecture, called K-Trek, that enables mobile users to travel across knowledge distributed over a large geographical area (ranging from large public buildings to a national park). Our aim is providing, distributing, and enriching the environment with location-sensitive information for use by applications on board of mobile and static devices.