A Middleware Architecture for Dynamic Reconfiguration of Agent Collaboration Spaces in Indoor Location-Aware Applications
Recently, indoor location-aware applications that provide interactive capability with the surrounding physical environment are increasingly in demand. These applications include mobile asset management, indoor navigation, and location-based reservation systems. In many cases, these services require...
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| description | Recently, indoor location-aware applications that provide interactive capability with the surrounding physical environment are increasingly in demand. These applications include mobile asset management, indoor navigation, and location-based reservation systems. In many cases, these services require multiple and dynamic collaborations over a large number of service subscribers with a deterministic, fast response time. However, many studies still function primarily on client/server-based centralized architectures that are inefficient in supporting complex collaboration, due to their static organization and unpredictable network congestion. To address this problem, we propose a middleware architecture named Dynamic Reconfigurable Agent Space (DRAS), based on a collaboration of service agents that can be distributed over the requested service area. A service application can dynamically modify a service area according to the request of the service subscribers under the DRAS. To demonstrate the feasibility and performance of the DRAS, we evaluated the elapsed time for dynamic reconfiguration of the service area. Also, two general collaboration scenarios in indoor location-aware applications called voting and tracking were evaluated in the simulation and in a real environment. The evaluation shows that the proposed middleware is suitable for indoor location-aware applications that require a large number of mobile nodes and complex collaboration by the effective distribution of network traffic and processing around the service agents. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-39a5ba9b387c4f75a3eb8ac12f24a7fd2025-08-20T02:24:13ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772014-03-011010.1155/2014/782928782928A Middleware Architecture for Dynamic Reconfiguration of Agent Collaboration Spaces in Indoor Location-Aware ApplicationsTae Hyon Kim0Hyeong Gon Jo1Seol Young Jeong2Soon Ju Kang3 Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon 305-600, Republic of Korea School of Electronics Engineering, College of IT, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-dong, Buk-gu, Daegu 702-701, Republic of Korea School of Electronics Engineering, College of IT, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-dong, Buk-gu, Daegu 702-701, Republic of Korea School of Electronics Engineering, College of IT, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-dong, Buk-gu, Daegu 702-701, Republic of KoreaRecently, indoor location-aware applications that provide interactive capability with the surrounding physical environment are increasingly in demand. These applications include mobile asset management, indoor navigation, and location-based reservation systems. In many cases, these services require multiple and dynamic collaborations over a large number of service subscribers with a deterministic, fast response time. However, many studies still function primarily on client/server-based centralized architectures that are inefficient in supporting complex collaboration, due to their static organization and unpredictable network congestion. To address this problem, we propose a middleware architecture named Dynamic Reconfigurable Agent Space (DRAS), based on a collaboration of service agents that can be distributed over the requested service area. A service application can dynamically modify a service area according to the request of the service subscribers under the DRAS. To demonstrate the feasibility and performance of the DRAS, we evaluated the elapsed time for dynamic reconfiguration of the service area. Also, two general collaboration scenarios in indoor location-aware applications called voting and tracking were evaluated in the simulation and in a real environment. The evaluation shows that the proposed middleware is suitable for indoor location-aware applications that require a large number of mobile nodes and complex collaboration by the effective distribution of network traffic and processing around the service agents.https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/782928 |
| spellingShingle | Tae Hyon Kim Hyeong Gon Jo Seol Young Jeong Soon Ju Kang A Middleware Architecture for Dynamic Reconfiguration of Agent Collaboration Spaces in Indoor Location-Aware Applications International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
| title | A Middleware Architecture for Dynamic Reconfiguration of Agent Collaboration Spaces in Indoor Location-Aware Applications |
| title_full | A Middleware Architecture for Dynamic Reconfiguration of Agent Collaboration Spaces in Indoor Location-Aware Applications |
| title_fullStr | A Middleware Architecture for Dynamic Reconfiguration of Agent Collaboration Spaces in Indoor Location-Aware Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Middleware Architecture for Dynamic Reconfiguration of Agent Collaboration Spaces in Indoor Location-Aware Applications |
| title_short | A Middleware Architecture for Dynamic Reconfiguration of Agent Collaboration Spaces in Indoor Location-Aware Applications |
| title_sort | middleware architecture for dynamic reconfiguration of agent collaboration spaces in indoor location aware applications |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/782928 |
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