Abstract
Wireless services are software-based services that exploit distribution
infrastructure embedded in our everyday life as various communication
and computing technologies. Service architecture defines concepts and
principles to develop and maintain services to obtain the quality issues
with minimum cost and faster time-to-market. In order to boost the
development of wireless services, more effective means of using existing
architectural know-how and artifacts are required. Our contribution is
the architectural knowledge base that introduces three cornerstones: the
service taxonomy, reference service architecture, and basic services
that alt together provide an efficient means of creating added value
with wireless services. The service taxonomy assists in identifying the
required functional and quality properties of services and the
constraints of the underlying technology platforms. The reference
architecture realizes the required properties, based on a selected set
of architectural styles and patterns, and provides a skeleton upon which
a new end-user service can be developed faster and more easily by using
partially ready-made solutions, and furthermore, to keep the
architectural knowledge base evolving at the same time. The
architectural knowledge base has been validated in several research
projects with industrial companies.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 361 - 379 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- service architecture
- reference architecture
- quality attribute
- service category
- wireless services