RSAM: An Enhanced Architecture for achieving Web Services Reliability in Mobile Cloud Computing

TL;DR

This paper introduces RSAM, an improved middleware architecture designed to enhance web service reliability in mobile cloud computing by effectively managing communication challenges and service unavailability.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel Reliable Service Architecture (RSAM) that tracks request execution and improves reliability with minimal overhead in mobile cloud environments.

Findings

RSAM maintains request size consistency.

Response size remains unchanged compared to traditional architecture.

Additional response time is less than 5% of total transaction time.

Abstract

The evolution of the mobile landscape is coupled with the ubiquitous nature of the Internet with its intermittent wireless connectivity and the web services. Achieving the web service reliability results in low communication overhead and retrieving the appropriate response. The Middleware Approach (MA) is highly tended to achieve the web service reliability. This paper proposes a Reliable Service Architecture using Middleware (RSAM) that achieves the reliable web services consumption. The enhanced architecture focuses on ensuring and tracking the request execution under the communication limitations and service temporal unavailability. It considers the most measurement factors including: request size, response size, and consuming time. We conducted experiments to compare the enhanced architecture with the traditional one that has no additional overhead. In these experiments, we covered several cases to prove the achievement of reliability. Results also show that the request size was found to be constant, the response size is identical to the traditional architecture, and the increase in the consuming time was less than 5% of the transaction time with the different response sizes.