14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

Research Article

AndroCon: An Android-Based Context-Aware Middleware Framework for Data Provisioning

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.7-11-2017.2273818,
        author={Jian Yu and Quan Sheng and Wei Yan and Chris Wang and Olayinka Adeleye},
        title={AndroCon: An Android-Based Context-Aware Middleware Framework for Data Provisioning},
        proceedings={14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS},
        year={2018},
        month={4},
        keywords={data provisioning context-awareness integration middleware android},
        doi={10.4108/eai.7-11-2017.2273818}
    }
    
  • Jian Yu
    Quan Sheng
    Wei Yan
    Chris Wang
    Olayinka Adeleye
    Year: 2018
    AndroCon: An Android-Based Context-Aware Middleware Framework for Data Provisioning
    MOBIQUITOUS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.7-11-2017.2273818
Jian Yu,*, Quan Sheng1, Wei Yan2, Chris Wang2, Olayinka Adeleye2
  • 1: Macquarie University
  • 2: Auckland University of Technology
*Contact email: jian.yu@aut.ac.nz

Abstract

Mobile devices have become major sources of context-aware data due to their ubiquity and sensing capabilities. However, deploying mobile devices as dynamic, unabridged context data provider either locally or remotely is still challenging due to their limited computing capability. Furthermore, integrating physical sensor data with social context data from online social networks is necessary for rich context data provisioning. In this paper, we present AndroCon, an Android-based context-aware middleware framework that enables mobile devices to acquire, integrate, manage, and provision context data. We have applied AndroCon to manage social and physical context data from various sources and have evaluated its performance in terms of power consumption and CPU utilization