TY - JOUR
T1 - Cache-enabled and context-aware approach to building composite mobile apps
AU - Ma, Shang Pin
AU - Li, Chi Chia
AU - Lee, Shin Jie
AU - Chen, Hsi Min
AU - Lee, Wen Tin
N1 - Funding Information:
Received November 20, 2018; revised March 2, 2019; accepted June 4, 2019. Communicated by Hung-Yu Kao. * This research was sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan under grants MOST 105-2221-E-019-054-MY3 and 108-2221-E-019-026-MY3.
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PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - Mobile Applications (Mobile Apps or Apps) are an important software delivery model for the composition of front-end user interfaces (UIs) and back-end services in the cloud. However, variations in wireless network conditions can undermine the stability of Mobile Apps. Furthermore, developers face numerous difficulties in customizing Apps based on user preferences. In this paper, we propose the MASA (Mobile Application Slice Architecture), to address the above issues from the viewpoint of reusable software components. MASA includes three main features: (1) a programming model (called MAS) for building cross-platform UI components to facilitate the creation of Mobile Apps; (2) a broadcast mechanism to facilitate the exchange of data among MAS components; and (3) a rule-based and context-aware service prefetch and caching mechanism to ensure uninterrupted and partial offline access to RESTful services. A web-based software tool, MASA Portal, was also developed to assist users in the publication, discovery, composition, and consumption of composite MAS. Quantitative experiment results demonstrate that MASA is able to shorten service response times when using the proposed service prefetch function in various contexts.
AB - Mobile Applications (Mobile Apps or Apps) are an important software delivery model for the composition of front-end user interfaces (UIs) and back-end services in the cloud. However, variations in wireless network conditions can undermine the stability of Mobile Apps. Furthermore, developers face numerous difficulties in customizing Apps based on user preferences. In this paper, we propose the MASA (Mobile Application Slice Architecture), to address the above issues from the viewpoint of reusable software components. MASA includes three main features: (1) a programming model (called MAS) for building cross-platform UI components to facilitate the creation of Mobile Apps; (2) a broadcast mechanism to facilitate the exchange of data among MAS components; and (3) a rule-based and context-aware service prefetch and caching mechanism to ensure uninterrupted and partial offline access to RESTful services. A web-based software tool, MASA Portal, was also developed to assist users in the publication, discovery, composition, and consumption of composite MAS. Quantitative experiment results demonstrate that MASA is able to shorten service response times when using the proposed service prefetch function in various contexts.
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U2 - 10.6688/JISE.202101_37(1).0009
DO - 10.6688/JISE.202101_37(1).0009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85102648586
SN - 1016-2364
VL - 37
SP - 123
EP - 138
JO - Journal of Information Science and Engineering
JF - Journal of Information Science and Engineering
IS - 1
ER -