Paper Info
Title
A communication model to integrate the Request-Response and the Publish-Subscribe paradigms into ubiquitous systems.
Abstract
The Request-Response (RR) paradigm is widely used in ubiquitous systems to exchange information in a secure, reliable and timely manner. Nonetheless, there is also an emerging need for adopting the Publish-Subscribe (PubSub) paradigm in this kind of systems, due to the advantages that this paradigm offers in supporting mobility by means of asynchronous, non-blocking and one-to-many message distribution semantics for event notification. This paper analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of both the RR and PubSub paradigms to support communications in ubiquitous systems and proposes an abstract communication model in order to enable their seamless integration. Thus, developers will be focused on communication semantics and the required quality properties, rather than be concerned about specific communication mechanisms. The aim is to provide developers with abstractions intended to decrease the complexity of integrating different communication paradigms commonly needed in ubiquitous systems. The proposal has been applied to implement a middleware and a real home automation system to show its applicability and benefits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.3390/s120607648
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
ubiquitous systems,communication paradigms,middleware design,quality properties,abstract models
Publication,Middleware,Asynchronous communication,World Wide Web,Abstraction,Software engineering,Computer science,Models of communication,Electronic engineering,Strengths and weaknesses,Semantics,Request–response
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
6
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.93
22
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlos Rodriguez-Dominguez1111.73
Kawtar Benghazi270.93
Manuel Noguera319632.94
José Luis Garrido4849.25
María Luisa Rodríguez570.93
Tomás Ruiz-López6477.95