A scalable, distributed middleware service architecture to support mobile internet applications

Wireless Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 311-320

  Bagrodia, Rajive ^a   Phan, Thomas ^a   Guy, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application session handoff; Distributed middleware; Load balancing; Nomadic computing; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SECURITY OF DATA; SEMANTICS; TEACHING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION SESSION HANDOFF; DISTRIBUTED MIDDLEWARE; LOAD BALANCING; MOBILE INTERNET; NOMADIC COMPUTING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

INTERNET;

EID: 0037531334     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023691126073     Document Type: Article

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