TY - GEN
T1 - AlfredO
T2 - ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2008
AU - Rellermeyer, Jan S.
AU - Riva, Oriana
AU - Alonso, Gustavo
N1 - Accepted Author Manuscript
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Mobile phones are rapidly becoming the universal access point for computing, communication, and digital infrastructures. In this paper we explore the software architectures necessary to make the mobile phone a truly universal access point to any electronic infrastructure. We propose AlfredO, a lightweight middleware architecture that allows developers to construct applications in a modular way, organizing the applications into detachable tiers that can be distributed at will to dynamically configure multi-tier architectures between mobile phones and service providers. Through AlfredO, a phone can lease on-the-fly the client side of an application and immediately become a fully tailored client. Our experimental results indicate that AlfredO has very little overhead, it is scalable, and yields very low latency. To demonstrate the feasibility and potential of the platform, in the paper we also describe AlfredOShop, a prototype application for spontaneously controlling information screens from a mobile phone.
AB - Mobile phones are rapidly becoming the universal access point for computing, communication, and digital infrastructures. In this paper we explore the software architectures necessary to make the mobile phone a truly universal access point to any electronic infrastructure. We propose AlfredO, a lightweight middleware architecture that allows developers to construct applications in a modular way, organizing the applications into detachable tiers that can be distributed at will to dynamically configure multi-tier architectures between mobile phones and service providers. Through AlfredO, a phone can lease on-the-fly the client side of an application and immediately become a fully tailored client. Our experimental results indicate that AlfredO has very little overhead, it is scalable, and yields very low latency. To demonstrate the feasibility and potential of the platform, in the paper we also describe AlfredOShop, a prototype application for spontaneously controlling information screens from a mobile phone.
KW - Mobile phones
KW - OSGi
KW - Software as a service
KW - Universal interface
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=58049107340&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-89856-6_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-89856-6_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:58049107340
SN - 3540898557
SN - 9783540898559
VL - 5346 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 22
EP - 41
BT - Middleware 2008 - ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference, Proceedings
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
Y2 - 1 December 2008 through 5 December 2008
ER -