Addressing the Challenges of HTTP-Based Mobile/Cloud Interaction

Author

White, Jonathan ; Yao Pan ; McCormick, Zach

Author_Institution

Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

8-11 April 2014

Firstpage

200

Lastpage

209

Abstract

A new trend is the construction of mobile cyber-physical applications that rely on sensor measurements from multiple mobile devices and back-end processing power in the cloud. Most of these applications use HTTP for network communication, which adds significant data marshaling, threading, synchronization, and other complexities to the device-cloud interactions. This paper presents an architectural approach for using distributed object computing concepts and web sockets to address the key challenges of simultaneously supporting legacy HTTP-based infrastructure and providing simplified mobile/cloud interactions.

Keywords

cloud computing; mobile computing; transport protocols; HTTP-based cloud interaction; HTTP-based mobile interaction; Web sockets; cloud computing; data marshaling; data synchronization; data threading; device-cloud interactions; distributed object computing; hypertext transfer protocol; mobile cyber-physical applications; mobile devices; network communication; Complexity theory; Message systems; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Protocols; Servers; Synchronization; Cloud Computing; Distributed Object Computing; Mobile Computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud), 2014 2nd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Oxford

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MobileCloud.2014.37

Filename

6834963