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Web services have been widely accepted as a platform independent services-oriented technology. Meanwhile, ubiquitous technologies are becoming popular in a variety of domain applications. In particular, hosting web services from mobile devices became a way to extend knowledge exchange and share. This paper presents our design and implementation of a mobile web service (MWS) middleware motivated by a mobile application that assists observers in the surveillance and diagnosis of animal diseases in the field. We also present a performance study of hosting web services on mobile devices by evaluating the MWS. Based on our observations, a performance model is used to predict the performance of a class of MWS-based applications.
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Zhang, J., Chen, S., Lu, Y., Levy, D. (2011). A Mobile Web Service Middleware and Its Performance Study. In: Hameurlain, A., Küng, J., Wagner, R. (eds) Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6790. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23074-5_8
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