173 research outputs found
The simplicity project: easing the burden of using complex and heterogeneous ICT devices and services
As of today, to exploit the variety of different "services", users need to configure each of their devices by using different procedures and need to explicitly select among heterogeneous access technologies and protocols. In addition to that, users are authenticated and charged by different means. The lack of implicit human computer interaction, context-awareness and standardisation places an enormous burden of complexity on the shoulders of the final users. The IST-Simplicity project aims at leveraging such problems by: i) automatically creating and customizing a user communication space; ii) adapting services to user terminal characteristics and to users preferences; iii) orchestrating network capabilities. The aim of this paper is to present the technical framework of the IST-Simplicity project. This paper is a thorough analysis and qualitative evaluation of the different technologies, standards and works presented in the literature related to the Simplicity system to be developed
Future Open Mobile Services
The major barriers for the success of mobile data services are the lack of comprehensible mobile service architectures, their confusing business models and the complexity combined with the inconsistency of the technology enablers. This paper attempts to present a more structured and comprehensive analysis of the current mobile service architectures and their technology enablers. The paper starts with a thorough study of the evolution of mobile services and their business models, and a collection of expectations of the different actors, including the end-user. Next, starting from the original mobile services architecture and environment, an attempt to place the different technology enablers in relation to each other and in relation to their position in the mobile system, will be carried out. Each technology enabler together with their contribution in the enhancement of mobile services are then summarised in a complete and comprehensive way. The paper concludes with a recapitulation of the achievement of the state-of-the-art technology enablers and an identification of future improvements
Evolution of network computing paradigms: applications of mobile agents in wired and wireless networks
The World Wide Web (or Web for short) is the largest client-server computing system commonly available, which is used through its widely accepted universal client (the Web browser) that uses a standard communication protocol known as the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to display information described in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). The current Web computing model allows the execution of server-side applications such as Servlets and client-side applications such as Applets. However, it offers limited support for another model of network computing where users would be able to use remote, and perhaps more powerful, machines for their computing needs. The client-server model enables anyone with a Web-enabled device ranging from desktop computers to cellular telephones, to retrieve information from the Web. In today's information society, however, users are overwhelmed by the information with which they are confronted on a daily basis. For subscribers of mobile wireless data services, this may present a problem. Wireless handheld devices, such as cellular telephones are connected via wireless networks that suffer from low bandwidth and have a greater tendency for network errors. In addition, wireless connections can be lost or degraded by mobility. Therefore, there a need for entities that act on behalf of users to simplify the tasks of discovering and managing network computing resources. It has been said that software agents are a solution in search of a problem. Mobile agents, however, are inherently distributed in nature, and therefore they represent a natural view of a distributed system. They provide an ideal mechanism for implementing complex systems, and they are well suited for applications that are communicationscentric such as Web-based network computing. Another attractive area of mobile agents is processing data over unreliable networks (such as wireless networks). In such an environment, the low reliability network can be used to transfer agents rather than a chunk. of data. The agent can travel to the nodes of the network, collect or process information without the risk of network disconnection, then return home. The publications of this doctorate by published works report on research undertaken in the area of distributed systems with emphasis on network computing paradigms, Web-based distributed computing, and the applications of mobile agents in Web-based distributed computing and wireless computing. The contributions of this collection of related papers can be summarized in four points. First, I have shown how to extend the Web to include computing resources; to illustrate the feasibility of my approach I have constructed a proof of concept implementation. Second, a mobile agent-based approach to Web-based distributed computing, that harness the power of the Web as a computing resource, has been proposed and a system has been prototyped. This, however, means that users will be able to use remote machines to execute their code, but this introduces a security risk. I need to make sure that malicious users cannot harm the remote system. For this, a security policy design pattern for mobile Java code has been developed. Third, a mediator-based approach to wireless client/server computing has been proposed and guidelines for implementing it have been published. This approach allows access to Internet services and distributed object systems from resource-constraint handheld wireless devices such as cellular telephones. Fourth and finally, a mobile agent-based approach to the Wireless Internet has been designed and implemented. In this approach, remote mobile agents can be accessed and used from wireless handheld devices. Handheld wireless devices will benefit greatly from this approach since it overcomes wireless network limitations such as low bandwidth and disconnection, and enhances the functionality of services by being able to operate without constant user input
An Architecture for the Integration of Internet and Telecommunication Services
In this paper, we propose an architecture for hybrid services, i.e., services that span many network technologies, especially the PSTN and the Internet. These services will play an important role in the future, because they leverage on the existing infrastructures, rather than requiring brand-new and sophisticated mechanisms to be deployed. We explore a few issues related to hybrid services and propose a platform, as well as a set of components, to facilitate their creation and deployment. The existing infrastructure is only required to generate specific events when requests for hybrid services are detected. We present the design of s service layer, based on Java, that handles the treatment of these special requests. Our service layer is provided with a set of generic components realized as Java Beans. Hence, we can provide hybrid services without changing the existing infrastructure. We illustrate this strength of our architecture by discussing the call forwarding service
An Automated WSDL Generation and Enhanced SOAP Message Processing System for Mobile Web Services
Web services are key applications in business-to-business, business-to-customer, and enterprise applications integration solutions. As the mobile Internet becomes one of the main methods for information delivery, mobile Web Services are regarded as a critical aspect of e-business architecture. In this paper, we proposed a mobile Web Services middleware that converts conventional Internet services into mobile Web services. We implemented a WSDL (Web Service Description Language) builder that converts HTML/XML into WSDL and a SAOP (Simple Object Access Protocol) message processor. The former minimizes the overhead cost of rebuilding mobile Web Services and enables seamless services between wired and wireless Internet services. The latter enhances SOAP processing performance by eliminating the Servlet container (Tomcat), a required component of typical Web services implementation. Our system can completely support standard Web Services protocol, minimizing communication overhead, message processing time, and server overload. Finally we compare our empirical results with those of typical Web Service
Klausurtagung des Instituts fĂŒr Telematik. Schloss Dagstuhl, 29. MĂ€rz bis 1. April 2000
Der vorliegende Bericht gibt einen Ăberblick ĂŒber aktuelle
Forschungsarbeiten des Instituts fĂŒr Telematik an der
UniversitÀt
Karlsruhe (TH). Das Institut fĂŒr Telematik ist in einem
Teilgebiet der
Informatik tÀtig, welches durch das Zusammenwachsen von
Informatik
und Kommunikationstechnik zur Telematik geprÀgt ist. Es
gliedert sich
in die Forschungsbereiche Telematik, Telecooperation Office
(TecO),
Cooperation & Management, Hochleistungsnetze und
Netzwerkmanagement
sowie dezentrale Systeme und Netzdienste.
Die Schwerpunkte des Forschungsbereichs "Telematik"
(Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. G. KrĂŒger) liegen in den Bereichen
"DienstgĂŒte", "Mobilkommunikation" und "Verteilte
Systeme". Gemeinsames Ziel ist die Integration heterogener Netze
(Festnetze und Funknetze), Rechnersysteme (von Workstations bis
zu
PDAs) und Softwarekomponenten, um damit den Anwendern eine
Vielzahl
von integrierten Diensten effizient und mit gröĂtmöglicher
QualitÀt zu erbringen.
Das "Telecooperation Office" (TecO,
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. G. KrĂŒger) ist ein Institutsbereich,
der in
Zusammenarbeit mit der Industrie anwendungsnahe
Forschungsthemen der
Telematik aufgreift. Im Mittelpunkt steht die innovative
Nutzung von
Kommunikationsinfrastrukturen mit den Schwerpunkten
Softwaretechnik
fĂŒr Web-Anwendungen, neue Formen der Telekooperation sowie
tragbare
und allgegenwÀrtige Technologien (Ubiquitous Computing).
Die Kernkompetenz des Forschungsbereichs "Cooperation &
Management"
(Prof. Dr. S. Abeck) liegt im prozessorientierten Netz-, System-
und
Anwendungsmanagement. Es werden werkzeuggestĂŒtzte
Managementlösungen fĂŒr Betriebsprozesse entwickelt und in realen
Szenarien erprobt. Ein wichtiges Szenario stellt das
multimediale
Informationssystem "NEXUS" dar, das als Plattform eines
europaweit
verteilten Lehr- und Lernsystems genutzt wird.
Der Forschungsbereich "Hochleistungsnetze & Netzwerkmanagement"
(Prof. Dr. W. Juling) befasst sich mit Technologie und Konzepten
moderner leistungsfĂ€higer Netzwerke sowie darĂŒber hinaus mit
sÀmtlichen Aspekten des Managements dieser zumeist ausgedehnten
Netze. Um eine enge Abstimmung zwischen ForschungsaktivitÀten
und
betrieblicher Praxis zu erzielen, werden insbesondere auch
Synergien
zwischen Institut und Rechenzentrum angestrebt.
Die Arbeiten des Forschungsbereichs "Dezentrale Systeme und
Netzdienste" (Prof. Dr. L. Wolf) befassen sich mit der
UnterstĂŒtzung
verteilter Multimedia-Systeme, auch unter BerĂŒcksichtigung von
Komponenten mit drahtlosem Zugang und den dafĂŒr geeigneten
Architekturen und Infrastrukturen. Dabei werden vor allem
Aspekte der
Kommunikationssysteme wie Protokollmechanismen,
Ressourcenverwaltung
und adaptive und heterogene Systeme untersucht
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