Title: Towards a service-oriented Middleware Enabling Context Awareness for Smart Environment

Authors: Yuebin Bai, Haixing Ji, Qingmian Han, Jun Huang, Zhiyuan Zhang

Addresses: School of Computer Science, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China. ' School of Computer Science, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China. ' School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'n, 710071, China; Communication Telemetry and Telecontrol Research Institute, China Electronic Technology Group Corporation (CETC), Shijiazhuang, 050002, China. ' School of Computer Science, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China. ' School of Computer Science, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China

Abstract: To screen heterogeneity of sensor hardware and support rapid development of applications in context-awareness, the idea of middleware is widely adopted. In this paper, the middleware is proposed to support the application development of context-awareness under ubiquitous networks environment. It applies the updated service-oriented and light-weight structure with excellent expansibility and efficiency in the running process. The architecture of middleware is presented and described in detail. Running structure of the middleware is proposed. At the end of the paper, a healthcare scenario is used to validate the design methodology and demonstrate the supporting function of middleware.

Keywords: context awareness; service-oriented architecture; SOA; middleware; smart environment; pervasive computing; ubiquitous networks; ubiquitous computing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2009.021911

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2009 Vol.4 No.1, pp.24 - 35

Published online: 09 Dec 2008 *

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