Title :
On building a reflective middleware service for location-awareness
Author :
Ahmad, Uzair ; Nasir, Uzma ; Iqbal, Mahrin ; Lee, Young Koo ; Lee, Sung Young ; Hwang, Inook
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Kyung Hee Univ., Suwon, South Korea
Abstract :
Location based services are becoming essential feature of context-awareness in ubiquitous computing. Reflective distribute component programming model is proposed to systematically provide location to location based services (LBS). We integrate distributed component technology and reflection to develop localization capability as middleware service. Concept of meta object protocols (Reflection) is used in different way than traditional reflective mechanisms. It deals with the state of the component that is not inside the component rather resides outside of it, namely extrinsic. This component model provides the basis for middleware architecture to support location providing service at design, implementation and run time. We describe the methodology we used to build location-awareness as middleware service based upon our reflective component model.
Keywords :
middleware; mobile computing; object-oriented programming; component programming model; context awareness; distributed component technology; location awareness; location based service; meta object protocols; reflective component model; reflective middleware service; ubiquitous computing; Buildings; Context-aware services; Deductive databases; Middleware; Object oriented modeling; Pervasive computing; Protocols; Reflection; Standards development; Ubiquitous computing;
Conference_Titel :
Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, 2005. Proceedings. 11th IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2346-3
DOI :
10.1109/RTCSA.2005.65