Anonymous mobile service collaboration: quality of service

  • Authors:
  • Annika Hinze;Michael Rinck;David Streader

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waikato, New Zealand;Humboldt Unversity, Berlin, Germany;University of Waikato, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • From active data management to event-based systems and more
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Mobile services depend on user context and preferences, and a mobile user's context is constantly changing. Many services are only available locally. The most appropriate service for a user's context is not known in advance and a user may enter or leave a service's range at any time. For a seamless user experience, services need to collaborate. These complex collaborations should be instantaneous yet anonymous - without disclosing user information. The paper proposes a new service collaboration model using event-based interaction. A prototypical implementation is used to demonstrate functionality, inter-operability, and generality of our solution. The solution guarantees ad-hoc service collaboration while protecting user information.