Prototypes of Mobility-enhanced Applications

 

We have implemented first MA-based applications that exploit the SOMA-based mobility middleware, most of all to verify the effectiveness of our mobility support while "in action".

The first application prototype is an automatic Devirus service: as soon as a laptop (and the mobile place running on it) connects to a fixed network, the default place of the hosting domain interrogates the SOMA directory service and asks for the profile information about the user responsible for that mobile place (in particular, we are interested in the timestamp that records the last devirus control performed). When the following condition holds:
current_time - last_devirus_control > admitted_interval_between_controls

the default place of the hosting domain sends a devirus agent that, after an authorization phase, checks and possibly cleans the file system on the mobile place. Finally, the discovery service notifies the UVE service to update the user profile information.


The other prototype of mobility-enabled MA-based application belongs to the area of Distributed Information Retrieval. Apart from its mobility enhancements for accommodating terminal/user mobility and mobile access to resources/services, the distributed info retrieval service is described in detail in the pages about the SOMA-based applications.

 
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