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Meta-Level Architectures for Component-Based Mobile Computing

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We present an approach to mobile-aware application development that integrates mobile-awareness into existing distributed component designs. Our proposed mobile components encapsulate a context of distributed components that collaborate to fulfill a set of published application functions. The approach is based on a set of meta-level architectures for mobility. First, we present a reflective layered-adaptation model derived from a proposed set of dynamic adaptation architectures. Then, we present a set of mobility-enhanced component services and corresponding object-oriented architectures for their realization. The approach is demonstrated with the development of a video delivery component. We show how mobile awareness can be integrated into an existing component-based design based on our proposed mobility-enhanced CORBA-based services.

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    Arnel I. Periquet & Eric C. Lin

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Periquet, A.I., Lin, E.C. Meta-Level Architectures for Component-Based Mobile Computing. Mobile Networks and Applications 6, 175–184 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011404508223

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