A new trend is the construction of mobile cyber-physical applications that rely on sensor measurements from multiple mobile devices and back-end processing power in the cloud. Most of these applications use HTTP for network communication, which adds significant data marshaling, threading, synchronization, and other complexities to the device-cloud interactions. This paper presents an architectural approach for using distributed object computing concepts and web sockets to address the key challenges of simultaneously supporting legacy HTTP-based infrastructure and providing simplified mobile/cloud interactions.
['Jules White', 'Yao Pan', 'Zach McCormick']
Addressing the Challenges of HTTP-Based Mobile/Cloud Interaction