A Communication Middleware for Ubiquitous Multimedia Adaptation Services

Authors

  • Ning Li
  • Hillary Tarus
  • James M. Irvine
  • Klaus Moessner

Keywords:

Agent, web service, content adaptation, ubiquitous service, middleware

Abstract

Ubiquitous services have gained increasing attention in the area of mobile communication aiming to allow service access anywhere, anytime and anyhow while keeping complexity to a minimum for both users and service providers. Ubiquitous environment features a wide range and an increasing number of access devices and network technologies. Context-aware content/service adaptation is deemed necessary to ensure best user experience. We developed an Adaptation Management Framework (AMF) Web Service which manages the complexity of dynamic and autonomous content adaptation and serves as an invisible enabler for ubiquitous service delivery. It remains challenging to manage the tasks involved in the communication between the AMF Web Service and the user's environment, typically represented by various types of intelligent agents. This work presents a middleware which manages those tasks and serves not only as a protocol gateway, but also as a message translator, a service broker, a complexity shield etc., between AMF Web Services and User Agents.

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Author Biographies

Ning Li

Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, UK

Hillary Tarus

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Strathclyde, UK

James M. Irvine

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Strathclyde, UK

Klaus Moessner

Centre for Communication System Research
University of Surrey, UK

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Published

2012-01-26

How to Cite

Li, N., Tarus, H., Irvine, J. M., & Moessner, K. (2012). A Communication Middleware for Ubiquitous Multimedia Adaptation Services. COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS, 29(4), 629–646. Retrieved from https://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/105