A Reference Architecture for Group-Context-Aware Mobile Applications

Towards Establishing a Catalogue of Patterns for Architecting Mobile Cloud Software

“…A number of reference architecture [3,19] and a pattern-based solution for mobile service oriented architecture (SOA) [12] exist. The technical distinction between a reference architecture and architectural patterns are detailed in [20].…”

“…This paper also presents viable implementations scenarios along with architectural tradeoffs. A similar work [19] presents a highly-extensible reference architecture that enables group-context-aware mobile applications that integrates contextual information from individuals with that of nearby team members to enable context-driven team coordination. In the context of mobile SOA, a taxonomy of six architectural patterns namely; standalone, full offloading, partial offloading, SaaS-based, CaaSbased, and offloaded CaaS-based is presented in [12].…”

Pattern-Based and Reuse-Driven Architecting of Mobile Cloud Software

“…In recent years, some reference architectures and pattern-based solution have emerged to support service oriented architecture (SOA) for mobile computing [7,21,22]. In the following, we discuss both the reference architectures and patterns for MCC systems, whereas the technical details and the distinction between the two can be found in [23].…”

“…The proposed reference architecture in [7] is used to demonstrate some implementations scenarios as well as the architectural trade-offs for the development of MCC systems. Another reference architecture is proposed in [21] that aims to support the first responder teams and their coordination. The reference architecture aims to support the development of group-context-aware mobile applications that exploits contextual information from individuals and their team members to enable context-aware computing and team coordination.…”

“…Figure 3, we can conclude that our research proposes to contribute towards promoting patternbased architecting for the MCC systems that currently lacks in the existing research. The research and solution presented in [7,22,21] on reference architecture and patterns [23] is relevant to our proposal. However, by considering the scope of existing research and the recent challenges for mobile computing [1,2,5,12], we claim that the proposed solution aims to advance the research state-of-the-art on patterns and architectures that can be applied to MCC systems.…”