Mobile Web Services Demo

The Mobile Web Services project investigates the issues that arise in hosting web services on pervasive and mobile devices. We believe that by hosting services on portable devices - the devices can interoperate without human intervention and derive the benefits similar in flavor to the ones that web services are delivering in the B2B commerce space. Issues specific to mobile devices include service registry, intermittent connectivity, device disambiguation, power consumption, etc.

In this demo the Linux Watch offers wallet services. In our scenario a shopper can pay for his purchases at a checkout kiosk from his electronic wallet instead of a traditional wallet. The checkout kiosk is used to present the user interface for the web service hosted on the watch. The user can confirm the payment by responding to queries sent to the watch. The communication between the kiosk and the watch uses SSL for security.
The demo is now hosted by the IBM Industry Solutions Lab in Hawthorne. 

In other demonstrations, we have used IPsec as a security mechanism between the watch and other pervasive devices.

More details can be found in the following publication.

Web Services on Mobile Devices - Implementation and Experience, Stefan Berger, Scott McFaddin, Chandra Narayanaswami, Mandayam Raghunath, Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications 2003, pp. 100-109.

Page was last updated on Feb, 2004.