Reflective Middleware for Location-Aware Application Adaptation

Today mobile computing is pervasively taking over the traditional desktop computing. Mobile devices are characterized by abrupt and unannounced changes in execution context. The applications running on these devices need to be autonomous and thus dynamically adapt according to the changing context. Existing middleware support for the typical distributed applications is strictly based on component technology. Future mobile applications require highly dynamic and adaptive services from the middleware components i.e. context-aware autonomic adaptation. Traditional middleware do not address this emerging need of wide ranges of mobile applications mainly because of their monolithic and inflexible nature. It is hypothesized that such application adaptation can be achieved through meta-level protocols that can reflectively change the state and behaviors of the system. We integrate Component Technology with our active Meta Object Protocols for enabling mobile applications to become adaptive fo...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICCSA
• Authors: Uzair Ahmad, S. Y. Lee, Mahrin Iqbal, Uzma Nasir, Arshad Ali, Mudeem Iqbal
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Autonomic Adaptation, ICCSA 2005, Meta Object Protocols, Mobile Applications