Composable ad-hoc Mobile Services for Universal Interaction

This paperintroduces the notion of “universalinteraction,” allowing a device to adapt its functionality to exploit services it discovers as it moves into a new environment. Users wish to invoke services — such as controlling the lights, printing locally, or reconfiguring the location of DNS servers — from their mobile devices. But a priori standardizationof interfaces and methods forservice invocation is infeasible. Thus,the challenge is to develop a new service architecture that supports heterogeneity in client devices and controlled objects, and which makes minimal assumptions about standard interfaces and control protocols. There are five components to a comprehensive solution to this problem: 1) allowing device mobility, 2) augmenting controllable objects to makethem network-accessible, 3) building an underlying discovery architecture, 4) mapping between exported object interfaces and client device controls, and 5) building complex behaviors from underlying composable ob...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: MOBICOM
• Authors: Todd D. Hodes, Randy H. Katz, Edouard Servan-Schreiber, Lawrence A. Rowe
• Keywords: Client Device, Communications, Methods Forservice Invocation, MOBICOM 1997, Priori Standardizationof Interfaces