Mobile Middleware – Architecture, Patterns and Practice

Professor Sasu Tarkoma, Professor, Helsinki University of Technology and Principal Member of Research Staff, Nokia Research Center, Finland Sasu Tarkoma received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science. He is currently professor at Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is also Principal Member of Research Staff at the Nokia Research Center. He is Docent at the Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki. He has managed and participated in national and international research projects at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). He has over 100 publications including 56 refereed scientific articles, and has also contributed to several books on mobile middleware. Dr Jaakko Kangasharju, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Jaakko Kangasharju received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki in 2008. He is currently working as a senior researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Helsinki University of Technology, managing projects on middleware in sensor networks and mobile computing. His previous work includes research on XML and Web services in mobile and wireless environments. He has contributed to mobile middleware standardization at the OMG and in XML-related standardization at the W3C.

About the Authors. List of Contributors. Preface. 1. Introduction. 1.1 Mobile Middleware. 1.2 Mobile Applications and Services. 1.3 Middleware Services. 1.4 Transparencies. 1.5 Mobile Environment. 1.6 Context-Awareness. 1.7 Mobility. 1.8 Example Use Case. 1.9 Requirements for Mobile Computing. 1.10 Mobile Platforms. 1.11 Organization of the Book. Bibliography. 2. Architectures and Platforms. 2.1 Overview. 2.2 Networking. 2.3 Naming and Addressing. 2.4 Middleware and Platforms. 2.5 Overview of Platforms. 2.6 Mobile Platforms. Bibliography. 3. Support Technologies. 3.1 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). 3.2 IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). 3.3 Web Services. 3.4 Other Technologies. 3.5 Service Discovery. 3.6 Mobility Solutions. 3.7 Advanced Topics. 3.8 Fuego: Example Middleware Platform. Bibliography. 4. Principles and Patterns. 4.1 Definitions. 4.2 Principles. 4.3 Cross-layer design. 4.4 Model Driven Architecture. 4.5 Architectural Patterns. 4.6 General Patterns. 4.7 Patterns for Mobile Computing. 4.8 Summary. Bibliography. 5. Interoperability and Standards. 5.1 Interoperability. 5.2 Standardization. 5.3 Wireless Communications Standards. 5.4 W3C Standards. 5.5 IETF Standards. 5.6 Emerging Internet Standards. Bibliography. 6. Mobile Messaging. 6.1 Messaging Fundamentals. 6.2 Messaging Architectures. 6.3 Mobile and Wireless Communication. 6.4 Security. 6.5 Reliability. 6.6 Java Message Service. 6.7 CORBA and CORBA Messaging. 6.8 XMPP. 6.9 Web Services. 6.10 The Web and REST. Bibliography. 7. Publish/Subscribe. 7.1 Overview. 7.2 Router Topologies. 7.3 Interest Propagation. 7.4 Routing Decision. 7.5 Standards. 7.6 Research Systems. 7.7 Advanced Topics. Bibliography. 8. Data Synchronization. 8.1 Synchronization Models. 8.2 File Systems and Version Control. 8.3 Synchronization in Middleware. 8.4 Case Studies. Bibliography. 9. Security. 9.1 Basic Principles. 9.2 Cryptography. 9.3 Public Key Infrastructure. 9.4 Network Security. 9.5 802.11X. 9.6 AAA, RADIUS, Diameter. 9.7 Transport-layer Security. 9.8 Web Services Security. 9.9 Security Tokens. 9.10 SAML. 9.11 XACML. 9.12 Single Sign-On (SSO). 9.13 Generic Bootstrapping Architecture (GBA). 9.14 Trusted Platform Module. 9.15 OpenID, OAuth, MicroID. 9.16 Spam. 9.17 Downloaded Code. Bibliography. 10. Application and Service Case Studies. 10.1 Mobile Services. 10.2 Mobile Server. 10.3 Mobile Advertisement. 10.4 Mobile Push Email. 10.5 Mobile Video. 10.6 Mobile Widgets and WidSets. 10.7 Airline Services. 10.8 Revisiting Mobile Patterns. 10.9 Summary. Bibliography. 11. Conclusions. Index.