The Resource-Oriented Mobile Web Server for Long-Lived Services

The Web Servers are globally accepted as the backbone of the Internet. The researchers in the area of the enterprise computing have studied, analyzed and implemented several architectures to optimize the performance of the large-scale Web Servers. However, due to the convergence of the IT and the mobile communication domains, the mobile nodes now are also been viewed as the service hosting platforms. The aim of this article is to present an optimized Mobile Web Server architecture for provisioning the Mobile Web Services (MobWS) as lengthy processes. For that reason, the asynchronous interaction strategy is derived, and later used to comprehensively discuss the server architecture, which is based on the Representational State Transfer (REST) design principles. The manuscript presents a detailed performance evaluation of the architecture and compares the results with the server based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) standard. The results show promising performance improvements due to the reduced payload requirements of the REST server.