Service Mobility - A New Feature of Mobile Computing

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Held, A.^a | Ziegert, T.^{b; *}

Affiliations: [a] Information Technology, Research Center Ulm, Daimler-Benz AG, Ulm, Germany, E-mail: [email protected] | [b] Institute for Operating Systems, Databases, and Computer Networks, Department of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, D-01062 Dresden, Germany, E-mail: [email protected]

Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Mr. T. Ziegert.

Abstract: Mobile Computing - the support of mobility and the access to information and services at the same time - offers new possibilities for distributed applications. In addition to information anywhere - anytime, the knowledge about the current location of a user or a service can be used to provide new functionality. In this paper, we describe some of the characteristics of mobile computing, present a system model and show in some detail how one of the features of mobile computing - service mobility - can be realized.

DOI: 10.3233/ICA-1999-6204

Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 131-142, 1999