Middleware providing group communication facility based on multi-way synchronization for cellular phone applications

• Published in: 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCS 2004 Workshops) pp. 434 - 437
• Main Authors: Nishigaki, K., Yasumoto, K., Umedu, T., Higashino, T., Ito, M.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: IEEE 2004
• Subjects: Batteries; Cellular phones; Global Positioning System; Indium tin oxide; Information science; Java; Libraries; Middleware; Motion pictures; Web server

In this paper, we propose a middleware library for efficiently developing distributed cooperative applications consisting of a large number of cellular phone users. Our middleware provides (1) a dynamic group formation mechanism depending on users' locations and preferred subjects and (2) a gro...