MIDD: an architecture for inter-domain mobile content distribution

The proliferation of mobile markets and subsequently mobile application development has led to new markets for content distributors. Whilst architectures have been developed to aid with the distribution of content within mobile software domains, this has not extended to inter-domain distribution. For instance MXit, Android and Facebook developers are required to develop separate applications when distributing content. Little research has been conducted to investigate mobile inter-domain content distribution. This paper proposes a new architecture Mobile Inter-Domain Development (MIDD) to address some of the issues with existing architectures and allow for inter-domain content distribution. This paper discusses the design, implementation and evaluation of the MIDD architecture as a proof of concept. The proof of concept architecture was evaluated and results showed that whilst memory consumption is of concern, networking and lines of code (LOC) efficiency improved through the use of MIDD. Future work will include increased component level mapping capabilities, lower level event handling and higher level user interface generation. Dynamic module loading and unloading will also be incorporated to lower the memory requirements.