Discovering the architecture of geo-located web services for next generation mobile networks

Author

Linwa, André Claude Bayomock ; Pierre, Samuel

Author_Institution

Mobile Comput. & Networking Res. Lab., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

5

Issue

7

fYear

2006

fDate

7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

784

Lastpage

798

Abstract

As many geo-located Web services will be deployed in the future, mobile clients will be interested in locating a specific application server based on requirements such as proximity, service cost per location area, bandwidth, and server utilization rates. This paper presents a middleware system called GLWSA (Geo-Located Web Services Architecture) that aims to satisfy these requirements in addition to providing a thematic factorization of common location functions in order to locate mobile clients. The GLWSA supports a set of GLWSMs (Geo-Located Web Services Manager) distributed over the mobile network. It defines protocols to discover and inform a Supplier Application Server (SAS) to migrate the service execution (from a specific client) to the nearest SAS based on the client´s location. This architecture is suitable to assist mobile clients to discover the geo-located Web services and to maintain the service execution closest to their location.

Keywords

Internet; computer network management; middleware; mobile communication; telecommunication computing; geolocated Web services architecture; geolocated Web services manager; middleware system; next generation mobile networks; service execution; supplier application server; Bandwidth; Context-aware services; Costs; Middleware; Network servers; Next generation networking; Protocols; Service oriented architecture; Synthetic aperture sonar; Web services; GLWSA; GLWSM; Geo-located services; Web services.; next generation mobile networks; service discovery;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1233

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMC.2006.95

Filename

1637429