Title: Filling the gap between mobile and service-oriented computing: issues for evolving mobile computing towards wired infrastructures and vice versa

Authors: Loreno Oliveira, Leandro Sales, Emerson Loureiro, Hyggo Almeida, Angelo Perkusich

Addresses: Embedded Systems and Pervasive Computing Lab, Electrical Engineering and Informatics Center, Federal University of Campina Grande, Aprigio Veloso Avenue, 882, Bodocongo, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil. ' Embedded Systems and Pervasive Computing Lab, Electrical Engineering and Informatics Center, Federal University of Campina Grande, Aprigio Veloso Avenue, 882, Bodocongo, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil. ' Embedded Systems and Pervasive Computing Lab, Electrical Engineering and Informatics Center, Federal University of Campina Grande, Aprigio Veloso Avenue, 882, Bodocongo, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil. ' Embedded Systems and Pervasive Computing Lab, Electrical Engineering and Informatics Center, Federal University of Campina Grande, Aprigio Veloso Avenue, 882, Bodocongo, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil. ' Embedded Systems and Pervasive Computing Lab, Electrical Engineering and Informatics Center, Federal University of Campina Grande, Aprigio Veloso Avenue, 882, Bodocongo, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil

Abstract: In recent years, Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) has emerged as a great new trend in software engineering. At the same time that SOC was attaining its space within both academia and industry, there was a growth in the supply and use of mobile and embedded devices. These devices are the key pieces for accomplishing the vision of ubiquitous/pervasive computing. One of the challenges for realising this vision consists in making heterogeneous devices to dynamically find each other in order to exchange data and advertise/consume services. In this context, SOC actually stands out as the better bullet for accomplishing this need, but at the cost of a number of other issues that system architects need to deal with. In this article, a set of issues related to the integration of mobile devices and SOC in the context of smart spaces is surveyed.

Keywords: mobile computing; pervasive computing; ubiquitous computing; service-oriented computing; SOC; service-oriented architecture; SOA; challenges; issues; opportunities; survey; web services; grid services.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2006.011710

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2006 Vol.2 No.4, pp.355 - 378

Published online: 16 Dec 2006 *

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