Implementing remote monitoring to the PeerHood middleware

ABSTRACT

In this paper an approach to extend the mobile computing environment through the utilization of fixed devices is presented. Seamless use of fixed devices as a part of mobile computing environment helps to save the scarce resources, e.g. communication and computation capacity as well as battery lifetime, of the mobile devices. Our approach is based on the use of the middleware that enables proactive discovery of devices and services in the close vicinity of the mobile device. Proactive operation, such as the scanning of wireless networks, consumes considerable amount of resources. Our approach migrate these resource consuming tasks to the fixed device, which then informs the mobile device of the changes in the near vicinity. Our mobile environment extension is implemented as a service on top of our existing middleware. Although the implementation itself is quite simple, the concept of service based task migration is validated and may be used for several other problems.

REFERENCES

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation

Keywords:
PeerHood, mobile environment, remote execution, routing