Mahmoud Middleware for Communications

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-86207-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 522 Seiten, E-Book

A state-of-the-art guide to middleware technologies, and theirpivotal role in communications networks.
Middleware is about integration and interoperability ofapplications and services running on heterogeneous computing andcommunications devices. The services it provides - includingidentification, authentication, authorization, soft-switching,certification and security - are used in a vast range of globalappliances and systems, from smart cards and wireless devices tomobile services and e-Commerce.
Qusay H. Mahmoud has created an invaluable reference tool thatexplores the origins and current uses of middleware (highlightingthe importance of such technologies as CORBA, J2EE and JMS) and hasthus compiled the roadmap to future research in this area.
Middleware for Communications:
* discusses the emerging fields of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and gridmiddleware detailing middleware platforms such as JXTA and theGlobus middleware toolkit.
* shows how Middleware will play a significant role in mobilecomputing.
* presents a Platform Supporting Mobile Applications (PLASMA) - amiddleware platform that consists of components for location,event, and profile handling of Location-Based Services.
* introduces middleware security focusing on the appropriateaspects of CORBA, J2EE, and .NET and demonstrates how to realizecomplex security capabilities such as role-based access control(RBAC) and mandatory access control (MAC).
* discusses how Quality of Service (QoS) component middleware canbe combined with Model Driven Architecture (MDA) technologies torapidly develop, generate, assemble and deploy flexiblecommunications applications.
This incomparable overview of middleware for communications issuitable for graduate students and researchers in communicationsand computing departments. It is also an authoritative guide forengineers and developers working on distributed systems, mobilecomputing and networked appliances.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahmoud, Qusay

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
List of Contributors.
Introduction.
1. Message-Oriented Middleware (E. Curry).
2. Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (E. Curry).
3. Transaction Middleware (S. Tai, et al.).
4. Peer-to-Peer Middleware (M. Junginger).
5. Grid Middleware (G. von Laszewski & K. Amin).
6. QoS-enabled Middleware (N. Wang, et al.).
7. Model Driven Middleware (A. Gokhale, et al.).
8. High Performance Middleware-Based Systems (S. Majumdar).
9. Concepts and Capabilities of Middleware Security (S.Demurjian, et al.).
10. Middleware for Scalable Data Dissemination (P. Chrysanthis,et al.).
11. Principles of Mobile Computing Middleware (C. Mascolo, etal.).
12. Application of Middleware Technologies to Mobile EnterpriseInformation Services (G. Wang, et al.).
13. Middleware for Location-based Services: Design andImplementation Issues (P. Langendörfer, et al.).
14. QoS-enabled Middleware for MPEG Video Streaming (K. Leung,et al.).
15. Middleware for Smart Cards (H. Vogt, et al.).
16. Application-Oriented Middleware for E-Commerce (J.Martínez, et al.).
17. Real-time CORBA Middleware (A. Krishna, et al.).
18. Middleware Support for Fault Tolerance (D. Szentiványi& S. Nadjm-Tehrani).
Index.