[CAnet - news] SOA and grids for wireless and portable devices

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[Here are a couple of interesting pointers to using SOA and grids for
wireless and portable devices. Thanks to Susan Baldwin and Lee Mcnight for
these pointers -- BSA]


NEMOS: Mobile-Agent based Service Architecture for Lightweight Devices

Abstract:
NEMOS is a framework for deploying a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) on
lightweight devices such as sensor networks and cell phones, allowing
integration of such mobile networks with the SOA architectures available on
the Internet. Execution and coordination of service compositions are
performed using highly compact mobile agents, in a lightweight environment
tailored for distributed task control. Device services and resources are
described using ontological metadata, permitting rich data semantics and
facilitating service compositions for interoperability between network
devices. This approach can bridge web service architectures deployed on the
Internet (such as the Web Services architecture) with ad-hoc networks of
mobile devices.

More information found in the NEMOS paper:
http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~d0r4/NEMOS.PDF 


http://wirelessgrids.net/

Wireless Grids Corporation (WGC) is just one company working in the
Wireless Grid problem space, so I can only tell you what we are working on.
We are using what is currently a proprietary middleware that is based on a
Couple of simple protocols. We are using ZeroConf for local discovery and
Some simple REST based API's as a control channel. What are we controlling?
Well,we use our software to control things like UPnP devices and Samba based
File sharing in Windows.

Basically, we are trying to create a grid of resources and controllers
inside the home network that will help people utilize the resources
they already have as well as enable new interactions. e.g. Windows does
file sharing...but it doesn't make it easy to scale file sharing up to
several machines with several users in a single house. Most people will
never use Windows file sharing because of this.



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