Abstract:
As mobile devices become more powerful and
common there will a greater capacity and need for more
complex interactions between mobile device-resident
software and other server-based software. This can be
termed mobile application integration. Mobile computing
introduces new opportunities and challenges for application
integration. Some of the challenges include small device
size, limited bandwidth, limited processing power and lack
of integration protocol support. Ad-hoc networks are those
that can be formed temporarily while particular devices are
in the vicinity of each other and ad-hoc mobile application
integration refers to the temporary integration of software
modules across devices while such a network exists. This
case poses even greater challenges for integration such as
dynamically changing combinations of platforms to be
integrated across and a requirement for integration to occur
dynamically. This paper proposes a novel Web Servicesbased
system that allows such dynamic and temporary
integration to occur in ad-hoc mobile networks.
