title: Enabling flexible and continuous capability invocation in mobile prosumer environments.
abstract: Mobile prosumer environments require the communication with heterogeneous devices during the execution of mobile services. These environments integrate sensors, actuators and smart devices, whose availability continuously changes. The aim of this paper is to design a reference architecture for implementing a model for continuous service execution and access to capabilities, i.e., the functionalities provided by these devices. The defined architecture follows a set of software engineering patterns and includes some communication paradigms to cope with the heterogeneity of sensors, actuators, controllers and other devices in the environment. In addition, we stress the importance of the flexibility in capability invocation by allowing the communication middleware to select the access technology and change the communication paradigm when dealing with smart devices, and by describing and evaluating two algorithms for resource access management.
authors.affiliation: Department of Telematics Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Avenida Complutense n. 30, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain. ralcarria@dit.upm.es
authors.forename: Ramon
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alcarria
authors.forename: Tomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Robles
authors.forename: Augusto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Morales
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: López-de-Ipiña
authors.forename: Unai
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Aguilera