Mobile Middleware for Situation-Aware Service Discovery and Coordination

Abstract

Situation-aware (SA) service discovery and coordination can enable the dynamic integration of mobile devices with various network infrastructures (NIs), and hence allow mobile users to utilize various resources in NIs anytime and anywhere. Various challenges due to the heterogeneous mobile environments, resource limitations of mobile devices and user mobility still need to be addressed in order to achieve SA service discovery and coordination. These challenges can be effectively addressed by developing mobile middleware that provides a set of components for efficient context management, situation analysis, service discovery and coordination. In this chapter, the background, requirements, design issues and enabling techniques for mobile middleware for SA service discovery and coordination will be discussed. Table of