Middleware for pervasive computing: A survey

Raychoudhury, Vaskar; Cao, Jiannong; Kumar, Mohan; Zhang, Daqiang

doi:10.1016/j.pmcj.2012.08.006

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“…Furthermore, it can refer to software and tools that can resolve the complexity and heterogeneity of base hardware and network platforms while facilitating the management of system resources and increasing predictability of application execution [37,38]. It would be highly useful to process both user parameters collected through various sensors and all the measured environmental data at the middleware level.…”

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Sustainable Wearables: Wearable Technology for Enhancing the Quality of Human Life

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This paper aims to elicit insights about sustainable wearables by investigating recent advancements in wearable technology and their applications. Wearable technology has advanced considerably from a technical perspective, but it has stagnated due to barriers without penetrating wider society despite early positive expectations. This situation is the motivation behind the focus on studies by many research groups in recent years into wearable applications that can provide the best value from a human-oriented perspective. The expectation is that a new means to resolve the issue can be found from a viewpoint of sustainability; this is the main point of this paper. This paper first focuses on the trend of wearable technology like bodily status monitoring, multi-wearable device control, and smart networking between wearable sensors. Second, the development intention of such technology is investigated. Finally, this paper discusses about the applications of current wearable technology from the sustainable perspective, rather than detailed description of the component technologies employed in wearables. In this paper, the definition of sustainable wearables is discussed in the context of improving the quality of individual life, social impact, and social public interest; those wearable applications include the areas of wellness, healthcare, assistance for the visually impaired, disaster relief, and public safety. In the future, wearables will not be simple data trackers or fun accessories but will gain extended objectives and meanings that play a valuable role for individuals and societies. Successful and sustainable wearables will lead to positive changes for both individuals and societies overall.

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“…Middleware for MNP have been studied extensively in the literature [7,26,6]. For instance the authors of [26,7] surveyed a large range of middleware solutions developed over the last 15 years.…”

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“…For instance the authors of [26,7] surveyed a large range of middleware solutions developed over the last 15 years. They make the harsh observation that hardly any of them are used in the real world.…”

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“…This type of network is precisely the type of network on which co-located ad hoc social media apps could be built. So despite theoretical work on MNP, there has hardly been any spillover in the real world [26] and there is currently a lack of solutions that provide programming support for developers to build mainstream MNP. The main issues identified related to building proper people-centric solutions is to move away from adopting traditional system-oriented middleware solutions, and moving towards taking people's needs and constraints into account first [6,26].…”

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“…In this section we will summarize the comparison of these designs based on six features that is most important to our work. The works by Raychoudhury et al [48] does a comprehensive comparison for common middleware for pervasive computing across three dimensions, including programming abstractions, system architecture, and system services and runtime support. Tigli et al [57] also presents a comparison of several middleware used in ubiquitous computing, using features such as structural adaptation, behavioral adaptation, heterogeneity, and extensibility, among others.…”

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A Middleware to Support Services Delivery in a Domain-Specific Virtual Machine

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The increasing use of model-driven software development has renewed emphasis on using domain-specific models during application development. More specifically, there has been emphasis on using domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) to capture user-specified requirements when creating applications. The current approach to realizing these applications is to translate DSML models into source code using several model-to-model and model-to-code transformations. This approach is still dependent on the underlying source code representation and only raises the level of abstraction during development. Experience has shown that developers will many times be required to manually modify the generated source code, which can be error-prone and time consuming.An alternative to the aforementioned approach involves using an interpreted domain-specific modeling language (i-DSML) whose models can be directly executed using a Domain Specific Virtual Machine (DSVM). Direct execution of i-DSML models require a semantically rich platform that reduces the gap between the application models and the underlying services required to realize the application. One layer in this platform is the domain-specific middleware that is responsible for the management and delivery of services in the specific domain.In this dissertation, we investigated the problem of designing the domain-specific middleware of the DSVM to facilitate the bifurcation of the semantics of the dovi main and the model of execution (MoE) while supporting runtime adaptation and validation. We approached our investigation by seeking solutions to the following sub-problems: (1) How can the domain-specific knowledge (DSK) semantics be separated from the MoE for a given domain? (2) How do we define a generic model of execution (GMoE) of the middleware so that it is adaptable and realizes DSK operations to support delivery of services? (3) How do we validate the realization of DSK operations at runtime?Our research into the domain-specific middleware was done using an i-DSML for the user-centric communication domain, Communication Modeling Language (CML), and for microgrid energy management domain, Microgrid Modeling Language (MGridML). We have successfully developed a methodology to separate the DSK and GMoE of the middleware of a DSVM that supports specialization for a given domain, and is able to perform adaptation and validation at runtime.

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Middleware for pervasive computing: A survey

Cited by 94 publications

References 108 publications

Sustainable Wearables: Wearable Technology for Enhancing the Quality of Human Life

Sustainable Wearables: Wearable Technology for Enhancing the Quality of Human Life

Padoc: Enabling social networking in proximity

A Middleware to Support Services Delivery in a Domain-Specific Virtual Machine

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