PLASTIC: Providing lightweight & adaptable service technology for pervasive information & communication

Abstract

The PLASTIC project adopts and revisits service-oriented computing for Beyond 3rd Generation (B3G) networks, in particular aiming at assisting the development of services targeted at mobile devices. Specifically, PLASTIC introduces the PLASTIC platform to enable robust distributed lightweight services in B3G networking environments through: (a) A development environment for the thorough development of SLA- and resource-aware services, which may be deployed on the various networked nodes, including handheld devices; (b) A service-oriented middleware leveraging multi-radio devices and multi-network environments for applications and services deployed on mobile devices, further enabling context-aware and secure discovery and access to such services; (c) A validation framework enabling off-line and on-line validation of networked services regarding functional and non-functional properties.