Mobile Web Service Provisioning
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| Research field | Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) |
| Status | completed |
Providing web services from smart phones
Introduction
This project, discusses the confluence of two major recent trends in distributed information systems engineering: the evolution from static content via personalized adaptive information provisioning to web services, and the emergence of mobile terminals with sufficient speed and capabilities to serve as parts of information systems. The combination of both trends yields the idea of mobile web services. While a few pioneering mobile web service client systems have appeared, this project explores the logical next step; whether it is feasible to use mobile terminals such as smart phones also as web service providers ("Mobile Hosts").
Figure 1: Basic mobile web services framework with Mobile Host
To support our argument, we have developed such Mobile Host in this project. Mobile Host is a light weight web service provider built for resource constrained devices like cellular phones. It has been developed as a web service handler built on top of a normal web server. The web service requests sent by HTTP tunneling are diverted and handled by the web service handler. The Mobile Host was developed in PersonalJava on a SonyEricsson P800 smart phone. The footprint of our fully functional prototype, including the extensive set of services and the service management, is only 130 KB. Open source kSOAP2 was used for creating and handling the SOAP messages.
The detailed evaluation of this Mobile Host clearly showed that service delivery as well as service administration can be done with reasonable ergonomic quality by normal mobile phone users. As the most important result, it turns out that the total web service processing time at the Mobile Host is only a small fraction of the total web service invocation cycle time (<10%) and rest all being transmission delay, in a GPRS network. This makes the performance of the Mobile Host directly proportional to achievable higher data transmission rates.
Figure 2: The Mobile Web Services Mediation Framework deployment scenario
The current research in this project includes study of providing proper QoS for the Mobile Host, means of discovering huge number of mobile web services possible with Mobile Hosts and QoS facilitating middleware frameworks for the Mobile Host. The application scope of the Mobile Host is also being checked in different domains. We are interested in mobile community support, e-learning, social networks and etc.
Students
- Kiran Pendyal
- Adem Toprak
- Iliyana Ivanova
- Hongyan Zhu
- Peifang Zheng
Research staff
Theses
- QoS evaluation of IP multimedia services based on service differentiation over the mobile networks (Running)
Publications
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The MobileHost CoLearn system: mobile social software for collaborative learning
Mohamed Chatti, Satish Srirama, I. Ivanova, Matthias Jarke
Published in Int. J. Mobile Learning and Organisation, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 15–38
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Mobile hosts in enterprise service integration
Published in Intl. J. Web Engineering and Technology 5, 2 (2009): 187-213
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Scalable Mobile Web Service Discovery in Peer to Peer Networks
Satish Srirama, Matthias Jarke, Wolfgang Prinz, H. Zhu
Published in The Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2008), June 8-13, 2008, IEEE Computer Society Press
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Mobile Web Services Mediation Framework
Published in ACM Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC 2007) Workshop @ 8th International Middleware Conference, November 26-30, 2007
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A Comparative Study of Nomadic Mobile Service Provisioning Approaches
P. Pawar, Satish Srirama, B. van Beijnum, A. van Halteren
Published in International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2007), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 277-286
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Secure Communication and Access Control for Mobile Web Service Provisioning
Satish Srirama, A. Naumenko
Published in International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2007), May 8-10, 2007.
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A performance evaluation of mobile web services security
Published in 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2007), 3-6 March 2007, Barcelona, Spain, INSTICC Press, pp. 386-392.
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Mobile Web Service Discovery in Peer to Peer Networks
Published in 5th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems, UMICS 2007, a CAiSE'07 workshop, June 11-12th, 2007
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Security analysis of mobile web service provisioning
Published in Intl. Journal Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 1, 2 (2007): 151-171
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Mobile Web Services for Collaborative Learning
Published in in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2006), November 16-17, Athens, Greece, 2006.
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Publishing and Discovery of Mobile Web Services in Peer to Peer Networks
Published in Proceedings of First International Workshop on Mobile Services and Personalized Environments (MSPE'06), Aachen, November 16-17, 2006, GI. pp. 99-112
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A Mediation Framework for Mobile Web Service Provisioning
Published in Proceedings of 2006 Middleware for Web Services (MWS 2006) Workshop @ 10th International IEEE EDOC Conference "The Enterprise Computing Conference", IEEE CS, October 16, 2006
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Security aware mobile Web Service provisioning
Satish Srirama, Matthias Jarke, Wolfgang Prinz, K. Pendyala
Published in Proceedings of International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2006), London, September 11-13, Published by e.Centre for Infonomics, pp. 48-56 ISBN 0-9546628-2-2
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Mobile Host: A feasibility analysis of mobile Web Service provisioning
Published in 4th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems, UMICS 2006, a CAiSE'06 workshop, June 5-6th, 2006
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Mobile Web Service Provisioning
Published in International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW'06, IEEE Computer Society Press. February 23-25, 2006
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Effective Testing Principles for the Mobile Data Services Applications
Satish Srirama, R. Kakumani, A. Aggarwal, P. Pawar
Published in IEEE International Workshop on Software for Wireless Communications and Applications (SOFTWIM 2006) Co-located with COMSWARE 2006, New Delhi, India, January 12, 2006
