This paper is to prepare guidelines for providing security functions that protect USN middleware system resources from malicious nodes by providing authentication, authorization and confidentiality for middleware connection nodes (applications/manager, sensor network) to make USN middleware safe.

SYNOPSIS This document contains a state-of-the-art survey of available middleware platforms for use in a telematics environment and evaluates their suitability for use in the practical prototyping work in the Amidst project. ii Document History DATE VERSION MODIFICATION 8 October 01 Initial outline of the deliverable. 1 December 02 Changed outline as discussed during November meeting. Added con...

The paper describes an authentication and authorization architecture for mobile Internet users. The architecture is based on the Shibboleth middleware that has been developed by the Middleware Architecture Committee for Education of the Internet2 Middleware Initiative. The initial goal of this middleware was access control to digital content available in the Internet. We propose to use this mid...

Using a middleware when designing a new distributed application allows portability across numerous software and hardware architectures, but introduces a new layer of potential incompatibilities due to the existence of various middleware standards. This paper presents the architecture of DROOPI (Distributed Reusable Object-Oriented Polymorphic Infrastructure). This project aims at defining and i...

RFID middleware is a cornerstone of non-trivial RFID deployments in complex heterogeneous environments. In this paper we present the principal middleware building blocks specified in the scope of the EPCglobal architecture. Alternative protocols and implementation frameworks for realizing these middleware blocks are also presented. At the same time we outline several middleware extensions to th...

This technical report describes a scenario with a video streaming application, called Mobile Video (MobVideo), designed for a QoS-aware mobile middleware platform. The middleware manages QoS on behalf of the application, by adapting both the application and middleware services to changes in the system context and resource load. The crux of the proposed solution is to let the mobile middleware d...

A system that relies on object-oriented middleware comprises computational objects that are specific to the system’s purpose and middleware objects used for the transparent integration of the former. The efficient maintenance of such a system involves the dynamic upgrade of the aforementioned entities. So far, there have been various approaches dealing with the online upgrade of computational o...

In distributed environments, generic middleware services(e.g. caching, location management etc.) are widely used to satisfy application needs in a cost-effective manner. Such middleware services consume system resources such as storage, computation and communication and can be sources of significant power overheads when executed on low-power devices. Our goal is to develop a distributed middlew...

The development of real-time, dependable or scalable distributed applications requires specific middleware that enables the formal verification of domain-specific properties. So far, typical middleware implementations do not directly address these issues. They focus on patterns and frameworks to meet application-specific requirements. Patterns propose a high-level methodology adapted to the des...

This paper investigates the role of middleware in the various pervasive computing scenarios. Middleware can be used provide an important transparency or abstraction layer between applications and lower layers that actually implemention layer between applications and lower layers that actually implement the requested services. Middleware services include messaging, RCP, synchronization and unive...