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Pervaho: A specialized middleware for mobile context-aware applications

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The concept of context-awareness offers a great potential for the future of mobile applications. In order to be developed in an optimal way, mobile context-aware applications need appropriate middleware services. This paper introduces Pervaho, an integrated middleware aimed specifically at supporting the development and testing of mobile context-aware applications. To illustrate the use of Pervaho, we walk through the development of a concrete mobile application and show how it can be built on top of Pervaho’s location-based publish/subscribe service. We also illustrate how a specialized mobility testing tool significantly simplifies the process of testing proximity-based semantics. We then present the implementation of Pervaho, which is based on a set of communication protocols geared at mesh networks. Finally, we provide a performance analysis of our implementation.

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  1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Patrick Eugster

  2. Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Benoît Garbinato & Adrian Holzer

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This research is partly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, in the context of Project number 200021-104488.

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Eugster, P., Garbinato, B. & Holzer, A. Pervaho: A specialized middleware for mobile context-aware applications. Electron Commer Res 9, 245–268 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-009-9042-4

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