Standard middleware platforms are unable to cope with extreme heterogeneity and dynamicity of distributed systems. With new trends in mobile/pervasive applications, systems required connect one another at run time, implying that heterogeneities arising need be resolved on the fly. This ability a system interact different is known as interoperability. More advanced solutions, which exceed state-...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one the key components ICT infrastructure smart cities due to its great potential for intelligent management infrastructures and facilities enhanced delivery services in support sustainable cities. Smart typically rely on IoT, where a wide variety devices communicate with each other collaborate across heterogeneous distributed computing environments provide infor...

24 Computer Middleware Challenges Ahead I n the first attempts to define comprehensive software platforms for distributed applications 25 years ago, researchers created basic middleware elements such as remote procedure call, file service, and directory service based on dramatic advances in hardware technology and fast networking and workstation systems. Today, the scope of middleware is broade...

In order to realize the real-time simulation of regional integrated energy system, a multi-energy flow collaborative technology based on message bus is proposed, and platform established this basis realizes electrical thermal systems. By using co-simulator composed message-oriented middleware adapter coordinate multiple simulators complete system in loop, uses open source ZeroMQ; it provides un...

Middleware is a layer of the software that connects and manages application components running on distributed hosts. Several types of middleware are reflective middleware, eventbased middleware, object-oriented middleware, and message-oriented middleware. Adaptive middleware is part of reflective middleware, that allows the system’s behavior to be altered at run time to better match the system’...

Developing software for Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is difficult because they consist of tiny, fragile, and resource-deprived embedded devices that communicate over low-bandwidth wireless links. Middleware can simplify WSN programming; many middleware packages have been proposed. This chapter provides an overview of WSN middleware. It starts with middleware providing basic building blocks, ...

In order to facilitate the development and proliferation of multimedia services in ubiquitous environment, a context-aware multimedia middleware is indispensable. This chapter discusses the middleware support issues for context-aware multimedia services. The enabling technologies for the middleware such as representation model, context management, and multimedia processing are described in deta...