Subiquitous: Supporting Ubiquitous Computing

Ubiquitous computing describes a world in which technology invisibly assist us in our everyday activities. Unfortunately, development of ubiquitous software has fallen behind advances in available hardware and high-speed networking. Subiquitous is a software platform to support the development and deployment of applications in a ubiquitous computing environment. The goal of Subiquitous is to provide flexible support for a variety of ubiquitous application structures and distributions as well as to support the rapid development and zero configuration, user friendly set-up of those applications. The Subiquitous system consists of two basic parts. First, it provides a client-server architecture to support the deployment and communication of Subiquitous applications. Second, it provides an application framework used to build Subiquitous applications. The framework, in collaboration with the Subiquitous server and client, provides service discovery, transparent and flexible communications, code distribution, and application organization. To demonstrate Subiquitous contributions toward the improvement of ubiquitous software, a number of example ubiquitous applications were developed. The examples demonstrate: a) distribution of Subiquitous applications to different devices along the Model-View-Controller separation, b) running of the same application in multiple devices supporting easy communication between devices, c) a resource-server with multiple clients all sharing data from a single location, and d) an existing complex application with a Subiquitous wrapper that supports moving user interaction from one device to another. Each example application requires zero user configuration and includes no more than thirty lines of Subiquitous code to support user interaction across multiple devices in the home.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Department dc:contributor.department

Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Henry, James Arthur Goodwin

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Pérez-Quiñones, Manuel A.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Edwards, Stephen H.
• Harrison, Steven R.

• Ubiquitous Computing
• Software Architecture

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-05192010-144703

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/33009