Challenges to the design of mobile middleware systems

Mobile networks provide mobile users with access to computing services and resources anywhere, anytime. While each mobile device has limited resources and services, all of them, by networking, can create a powerful computing mobile platform. The role of the mobile middleware is to facilitate this platform. This paper dicusses the main features of mobile networks that represent challenges to the design of a cost-effective mobile middleware layer, then presents several ongoing middleware projects and, in the end, focuses on an original solution.