CACIP: a pattern for interfacing components in a context-aware mobile environment
Siphesihle Mandlakhe Zuma, Matthew Olusegun Adigun · 2006
This paper presents the development of the Context-Aware Component Interfacing Pattern, CACIP, aimed at contributing to current developments in distributed inter-component communication and collaboration in mobile wireless environment, as well as fault-tolerant producer-consumer interaction. CACIP derives from the component bus and the component glue patterns as standard solutions to robust producer-consumer interaction in a mobile wireless environment. Communication between the participating components is managed by a common data structure referred to as the information bus. To showcase usefulness of the pattern, a prototype of an example service was implemented which was subsequently used as a testbed when evaluating the performance of the proposed scheme. The results from this exercise are also presented.