Lightweight Service-Based Software Architecture

Abstract

This article describes the Simple Event Relaying Framework (SERF), a novel service-based software architecture designed especially for resource constrained settings and facilitated cooperation between applications. The proposed prototype framework aims at utilizing publish/ subscribe and peer-to-peer, technologies that are usually encountered only in higher level inter-device networks, inside the software architecture of individual applications in very simple form. The idea is to introduce a simple core architecture on which more advanced features can be built on. The research will be conducted primarily by creating prototype solutions to real life problems and learning from the experience.