Research and Development of Pervasive Computing Middleware Technology

Pervasive computing has become one of the most effective fields in computer science. In pervasive computing environments, it has very large scale and high heterogeneity, which exists between network infrastructures, hardware platforms, operating systems and application services. Since pervasive computing middleware technology is capable of solving the problem of heterogeneity very well, it has become a hot spot in pervasive computing. The existing related researches on pervasive computing middleware are analyzed and compared in the paper, and the design guidelines for pervasive computing middleware are presented, too. At last, a summary and a prospect are proposed.