Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications [Hardcover]

Benoît Garbinato (Editor), Hugo Miranda (Editor), Luís Rodrigues (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 3540897062 | ISBN-13: 978-3540897064 | Publication Date: April 7, 2009 | Edition: 1

Middleware is a critical foundation needed to leverage the development of a wide range of mobile and ubiquitous applications. Intrinsic challenges when building such middleware require the combination of expertise from areas like distributed systems, networking, software engineering, and application development. This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the main fundamental problems, technologies, paradigms, and solutions of concern to developers of middleware for mobile environments. The contributions are grouped into four parts, on networking and programming issues, communication models, middleware issues, and application issues. Each chapter is structured as a self-contained tutorial, presenting an overview of a specific topic and the state-of-the-art solutions for the related problems. In addition, the book also includes an authoritative reference list. The material has been successfully used in several thematic training schools organized by the ESF MiNEMA (Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications) program, and the book's organization and presentation is ideal for an advanced course on middleware.

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Middleware is a critical foundation needed to leverage the development of a wide range of mobile and ubiquitous applications. Intrinsic challenges when building such middleware require the combination of expertise from areas like distributed systems, networking, software engineering, and application development. This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the main fundamental problems, technologies, paradigms, and solutions of concern to developers of middleware for mobile environments. The contributions are grouped into four parts, on networking and programming issues, communication models, middleware issues, and application issues. Each chapter is structured as a self-contained tutorial, presenting an overview of a specific topic and the state-of-the-art solutions for the related problems. In addition, the book also includes an authoritative reference list. The material has been successfully used in several thematic training schools organized by the ESF MiNEMA (Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications) program, and the book's organization and presentation is ideal for an advanced course on middleware.

About the Author

Benoît Garbinato is a Full Professor in computer science at the University of Lausanne, where he leads the Distributed Object Programming Lab. Prior to that he had worked in industry, first for the research lab of UBS in Zurich (Ubilab), where he lead the software engineering group, and later for Sun Microsystems' professional services, as senior software architect. His current research and teaching activities focus on the design and implementation of dynamic distributed architectures, such as pervasive and mobile systems. Hugo Miranda is an Assistant Professor at the Informatics Department of the University of Lisbon. His research interests include protocol composition frameworks and mobile computing. Luís Rodrigues is a Professor of the Departamento de Engenharia Informática at the Technical University of Lisbon. His current interests include fault-tolerant and real-time distributed systems, group membership and communication, replicated data management, publish-subscribe systems, peer-to-peer computing and mobile computing. He is a member of the Ordem dos Engenheiros, ACM, and IEEE.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 475 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 7, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540897062
• ISBN-13: 978-3540897064
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #23 in Books > Computers & Technology > Mobile & Wireless Computing > Programming
  • #27 in Books > Computers & Technology > Hardware > Internet & Networking

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3.0 out of 5 stars Lot of breadth here, September 2, 2009

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This review is from: Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications (Hardcover)

This text offers a good breadth of information of middleware issues specific to mobile and network centric applications. The book is almost like an assembly of different papers/ideas assembled together in a logical form. Some of the topics are simple while other ideas are overarching. There is a good coverage of routing protocols targeted at MANETs and there is also a nice overview of middleware architectures.
The book lacks complete depth of knowledge on any one topic and more often than not, there is an abrupt jump from an overview of a topic to complex simulation analysis. That aside, it is a good read for folks interested in middleware for wired and wireless environments.