Ubiquitous information services with JAIN platform

  • Authors:
  • Tak-Goa Tsuei;Chih-Yang Sung

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electronic Engineering, Ta Hwa Institute of Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan;Institute of Electronic Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Mobile Networks and Applications - Mobile networking through IP
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

To provide responsive information services in a ubiquitous computing environment, service software and system development are indispensable. A component-based ubiquitous information system with a JAIN (Java APIs for Integrated Networks) platform to achieve seamless transmissions and reach-everywhere communications was designed in our research. In this development, numerous ubiquitous service modules were identified: location management, roaming, mobile IP and WAP networking. These component-based network modules were constructed using a component composition language with component specification and interface definition, running on top of a distributed service architecture using a JAIN platform to distribute the ubiquitous information services to mobile users. Two applications, Wireless-Application-Protocol (WAP) Mail and Video-on-Demand (VoD) services, show that the JAIN-like platform with the developed networking components effectively fills the gap for application developers between mobile appliances and various kinds of ubiquitous information services.