Abstract
Today’s mobile devices and networks enable the development of novel mobile service applications. Developing such applications raises many challenges including heterogeneity in terms of mobile operating systems and APIs, service availability and scalability, and providing for the diverse communication needs of different applications. In this paper, we present an overview of the Odin middleware platform whose aim is to address these challenges. Odin utilises a surrogate-based architectural model to promote a mobile service’s scalability and availability. The middleware is reconfigurable, allowing mobile applications to adapt to changing operating conditions and minimise resource consumption. It also includes an optimised communication channel that masks the complexity of interacting with mobile services over mobile telecommunications networks. Using Odin’s interfaces and standards compliance, mobile applications and services with consistent communication behaviour can be easily implemented on heterogeneous platforms. Through quantitative evaluation, Odin’s message-based communication primitives have been demonstrated to perform favourably with leading industry push messaging providers.
Highlights
Mobile device and networking hardware continue to advance at a rapid rate, providing essential infrastructure for the new generation of mobile applications and services
We present an overview of the Odin middleware platform whose aim is to address these challenges
Prior to describing our Odin middleware, we focus on push notification, which has been universally adopted by mobile platform vendors as an asynchronous publish/subscribe messaging primitive
Summary
Mobile device and networking hardware continue to advance at a rapid rate, providing essential infrastructure for the new generation of mobile applications and services. Emerging mobile applications require rich communication abstractions Diverse applications, including those concerned with news, sports scores, stock markets, driving [1] [2] and healthcare [3] need to disseminate updates and announcements in a timely fashion to mobile users. For such cases, push notification, which is widely embedded in major mobile operating systems, is appropriate. We present an overview of Odin [4], a middleware platform whose aim is to address the above challenges It simplifies development of mobile services and applications. A key component of the middleware is an interconnect implementation that has been developed to support mobile applications and services.
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