U-Hopper: User-centric Heteogeneous Opportunistic Middleware

Iacopo Carreras; David Tacconi

1st International ICST Workshop on Technologies for Situated and Autonomic Communications

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U-Hopper: User-centric Heteogeneous Opportunistic Middleware

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2007.2438,
    author={Iacopo Carreras and David Tacconi},
    title={U-Hopper: User-centric Heteogeneous Opportunistic Middleware},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Technologies for Situated and Autonomic Communications},
    proceedings_a={SAC},
    year={2008},
    month={8},
    keywords={J2ME   bluetooth   middleware platform   mobile phones   opportunistic communications},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2007.2438}
}

Iacopo Carreras
David Tacconi
Year: 2008
U-Hopper: User-centric Heteogeneous Opportunistic Middleware
SAC
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2007.2438

Iacopo Carreras¹^,*, David Tacconi¹^,*

1: CREATE-NET Via alla Cascata 56/C Trento, Italy

*Contact email: iacopo.carreras@create-net.org, david.tacconi@create-net.org

Abstract

This demonstration presents U-Hopper, a user-centric het- erogeneous opportunistic middleware specifically tailored to the diffusion of user centric information, such as contex- tual and entertainment data, in opportunistic environments. The proposed platform exploits proximity wireless interfaces available on most commercial mobile devices for disseminat- ing data among mobile users. Such diffusion if driven by the specific interests of mobile users, combined with the in- trinsic locality of data being generated in such pervasive en- vironments. The prototype is developed over java-enabled smartphones and relies on Bluetooth connectivity for achiev- ing proximity communications. In this paper, U-Hopper is described in all its functional components, together with the details of its software implementation.

Keywords: J2ME bluetooth middleware platform mobile phones opportunistic communications

Published: 2008-08-29
Modified: 2011-07-07

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.BIONETICS2007.2438