Hybrid Framework for Effective Mobile Web Service Provisioning

Due to the advancements in smart mobile phone's capabilities, web technologies and wireless technologies, it is changing the role of mobile devices as a web service consumer to a web service provider. The future of mobile web service provisioning is more exciting because day by day Smartphone users are increasing. In future it is called as Mobile Ubiquitous computing because the smart phone provides services anywhere, anytime. But provisioning web services on mobile devices in a wireless environment are challenging due to resource restrictions of the device and unreliable mobile network. Providing continues web services from a mobile phone, it consumes more resources and battery power. Processing web service request and communicate response will drain the battery rapidly, hence processing and communication overhead should be kept at a minimum. The solution for this is to develop lightweight frameworks for provisioning web services on mobile phones. This paper describes the hybrid framework to overcome the above problems and support continuous provisioning of web services on android mobile host. The main aim is to deploy web services on Android mobile using REST architecture and access web services through SMS and HTTP. The paper presents the detailed study of Android based mobile web service provisioning using light weight web services on real time setting. Our experimental setup and results indicate that hybrid framework effectively reduces resource consumption, processing and communication overhead.