BlueInfo: Open Architecture for Deploying Web Services in WPAN Hotspots

Author

Kukka, Hannu ; Kruger, Fabio ; Ojala, Timo

Author_Institution

MediaTeam Oulu, Univ. of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

fYear

2009

fDate

6-10 July 2009

Firstpage

984

Lastpage

991

Abstract

We introduce BlueInfo, an open architecture for deploying Web services in WPAN hotspots for cost-free context-aware mobile access over Bluetooth. A BlueInfo hotspot either pushes subscribed services at desired intervals to registered devices (BlueInfo Push) or alternatively the user invokes a particular service by sending a simple keyword query to the hotspot (BlueInfo Pull). The BlueInfo hotspot requests the service from the origin server in the Internet and relays the response to the mobile device, possibly after adaptation for mobile viewing. The usability of BlueInfo Pull in comparison to a mobile phone browser is demonstrated with an empirical user evaluation conducted in a laboratory setting.

Keywords

Bluetooth; Web services; mobile radio; ubiquitous computing; BlueInfo hotspot; Bluetooth; Internet; WPAN hotspot; Web service; context-aware mobile access; mobile phone browser; personal area network; Bluetooth; Context-aware services; Laboratories; Mobile handsets; Relays; Service oriented architecture; Usability; Web and internet services; Web server; Web services; context-awareness; mobile Internet; ubiquitous computing; urban computing; urban informatics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Services, 2009. ICWS 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3709-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWS.2009.142

Filename

5175922