Mobile Service Development and Deployment with Remotely Launched Service-Oriented Mobile Agents

The execution of the client side of a mobile service is a task greatly conditioned by the limited resources available to perform computation and communication. Moving these operations to other computing elements reduces the energy spent by the device in the actual computing of the final result. This allows for a more efficient management of the device´s energy, increasing its autonomy. In this paper, we use put to use the features of the MOB programming language to efficiently develop mobile device specific applications, namely the ability to remotely launch mobile agents, strong mobility and a service-oriented resource discovery model.