Toward an Efficient Framework for Designing, Developing, and Using Secure Mobile Applications
Nowadays, people are going more and more mobile, both in terms of devices and associated applications. Moreover, services that these devices are offering are getting wider and much more complex. Even though actual handheld devices have considerable computing power, their contexts of utilization are different. These contexts are affected by the availability of connection, high latency of wireless networks, battery life, size of the screen, on-screen or hard keyboard, etc. Consequently, development of mobile applications and their associated mobile Web services, if any, should follow a concise methodology so they will provide a high Quality of Service. The aim of this paper is to highlight and discuss main issues to consider when developing mobile applications and mobile Web services and then propose a framework that leads developers through different steps and modules toward development of efficient and secure mobile applications. First, different challenges in developing such applications are elicited and deeply discussed. Second, a development framework is presented with different modules addressing each of these challenges. Third, the paper presents an example of a mobile application, Eivom Cinema Guide, which benefits from following our development framework.
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Architecture and the Associated Technologies," 4th International
Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, 2008, pp. 77-83.
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distributed recommendation and re-sale of music," 2nd International
Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media, 2006 2nd
International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media,
IEEE Computer Society, 2006, pp. 93-98.
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International Journal of Innovation and Learning, vol. 4, no. 1, 2007, pp.
1-13.
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between banks, application service providers and mobile network
operators," 3rd International Conference on Information Technology:
New Generation, Proceedings. Third International Conference on
Information Technology: New Generation, IEEE Computer Society,
2006, pp. 346-350.
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development and content integration," 4th IEEE International Workshop
on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education,
Proceedings - Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile
and Ubiquitous Technology in Education, WMUTE 2006, Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Piscataway, NJ
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Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3824), Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 765-
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technologies," World Wide Web, vol. 9, no. 1, 2006, pp. 5-33.
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interaction with unified session management," IEEE International
Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications,
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio
Communications, PIMRC, Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers Inc., Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, United States, 2006, pp. 1-
5.
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SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Proc. SPIE -
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for Optical Engineering, 2005, pp. 137-145.
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6th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and
Communications, 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on
Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2008, Institute of
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