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## Meet the editor

Dr. Mehdia Ajana El Khaddar obtained her Ph.D. in computer science from ENSIAS School in Rabat, Morocco (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse des Systèmes) and both her Bachelor of Science in computer science and Master of Science in computer networks from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI), Morocco. Her research fields include, but are not limited to, the following: RFID, middleware design, WSNs,

pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, context-awareness, policy-based systems, ontologies, IoT, IoE, IoNT, etc. Dr. Mehdia Ajana El Khaddar is a pioneering researcher of middleware architecture for RFID applications, WSNs, and IoT, appointed as the best reviewer by international journals and proofreading or editing companies, and holder of best paper awards from many recognized international conferences for her research papers.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Gary S.D. Farrow*

*by Jagdish Chandra Patni*

*by Mehdia Ajana El Khaddar*

Smart Manufacturing Environment *by Muzaffar Rao and Thomas Newe*

Middleware Patterns for Cloud Platforms

Cloud Security in Middleware Architecture

**Preface XI**

Middleware Applications **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 29**

**Chapter 3 41**

Cloud Computing Middleware **51**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 75**

Middleware Solutions for the Internet of Things: A Survey

*by Rochak Bajpai, Atul Bansal, Jyoti Tripathi and Sridhar Iyer*

Middleware Architecture - History and Adaptation with IEEE 802.11

Middleware Application, Suitable to Build an Automated and Connected

## Contents


Preface

The idea of having this book came from my interest in producing a practical book about middleware design and architecture and gathering all the recent research studies in this field. My previous work about radio-frequency identification (RFID) middleware design and its application to many areas, such as, library management, supply chain management (SCM), and health care, has motivated me to edit this book concerning the different existing middleware design patterns and applications that have emerged recently due to the technological revolution and the increasing

Middleware refers to the distributed software layer that bridges the gap and removes impediments between the heterogeneous hardware platforms and the backend applications requirements. It serves as an intermediate layer providing common services and programming abstractions and hiding the low-level management of the connected hardware. With the recent advances in distributed systems and enabling technologies, such as RFID, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), internet of things (IoT), internet of energy (IoE), cloud computing, context-aware pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, etc., middleware design and development has become a necessity, taking increasing importance. A dedicated middleware solution is required for managing and monitoring the different hardware devices, as well as processing dynamically generated high volumes of data, applying contextual rules before disseminating these data to the different connected backend applications, supporting rapid applications development, and also targeting the security, privacy, and other issues both at the hardware and applications levels.

This book provides a holistic view about the different design patterns and reference models used in middleware architectures in general, followed by a detailed survey of recent propositions of specific middleware architectures dedicated to the use of the different emerging technologies, such as, automating technologies, including

The aim of this book is to approach middleware systems from an architectural and application perspective and to cover the middleware design and implementation challenges related to each application field. This book, therefore, intends to provide a comprehensive body of knowledge for the benefit of middleware systems' designers and developers in different application domains and to bring together in one place important and up-to-date contributions in this fast-moving research area, and also the remaining issues and challenges that still need to be considered by research-

The organization of this book is directed by middleware design patterns and applications' development considerations. The first section of this book presents middleware applications: Chapter 1 discusses and presents the different IoT middleware design patterns and surveys the most recent existing middleware solutions for each pattern; Chapter 2 presents the middleware architecture and its adaptation to IEEE 802.11 protocol, and Chapter 3 presents a case of middleware application used to build a connected and smart manufacturing environment. The second section of this book

but not limited to IoT, RFID, WSNs, and cloud computing.

ers in their future works.

demand to develop smart environments.
