Using publish/subscribe middleware for mobile systems

  • Authors:
  • Gianpaolo Cugola;H.-Arno Jacobsen

  • Affiliations:
  • Politecnico di Milano, Italy;University of Toronto, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The range of mobile computing applications comprises location-based services, sensor networks, and ad hoc networking. Middleware for these applications must effectively support the interaction of a priori anonymous entities, support timely decoupled processing, and mediate between potentially millions of mobile clients. These requirements are hard to achieve with traditional client/server middleware systems. We argue that the publish/subscribe paradigm effectively addresses many of the challenges raised by emerging mobile applications. In this paper, we give an overview of the publish/subscribe paradigm, present a detailed analysis of mobile application requirements, and discuss two proven implementations of this paradigm that address these requirements. We thus show that the publish/subscribe paradigm may effectively address most of the challenges raised by emerging mobile applications.