On Event-Based Middleware for Location-Aware Mobile Applications
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R. Meier and V. Cahill, On Event-Based Middleware for Location-Aware Mobile Applications, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 36, 3 - May/June, 2010, 409 - 430Download Item:
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Abstract:
As mobile applications become more widespread, programming paradigms and middleware architectures designed to
support their development are becoming increasingly important. The event-based programming paradigm is a strong candidate for the
development of mobile applications due to its inherent support for the loose coupling between components required by mobile
applications. However, existing middleware that supports the event-based programming paradigm is not well suited to supporting
location-aware mobile applications in which highly mobile components come together dynamically to collaborate at some location. This
paper presents a number of techniques including location-independent announcement and subscription coupled with locationdependent
filtering and event delivery that can be used by event-based middleware to support such collaboration. We describe how
these techniques have been implemented in STEAM, an event-based middleware with a fully decentralized architecture, which is
particularly well suited to deployment in ad hoc network environments. The cost of such location-based event dissemination and the
benefits of distributed event filtering are evaluated.
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European Commission
IST-2000- 26031 (CORTEX)
Higher Education Authority (HEA)
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Author: MEIER, RENE; CAHILL, VINNY
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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)36
3 - May/June
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Distributed systems, middleware, publish subscribe, event-based communication, mobile computingSubject (TCD):
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