%0 Journal Article 
%A Ortiz Bellot, Guadalupe
%A García de Prado Fontela, Alfonso
%A Berrocal, Javier
%A Hernández, Juan
%T Improving Resource Consumption in Context- Aware Mobile Applications Through Alternative Architectural Styles
%D 2019
%@ 2169-3536
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21534
%X Over the last years, the Internet of Things has fostered a growing interest in context-aware
mobile applications; this fact is mainly due to highly favoring information provision from multiple Internetconnected
devices. To identify user context, these applications collect information from the user and his/her
environment and typically  lter app information, so that the user receives only the interesting and relevant
information. However, such a task usually implies further resource consumption on user mobile devices,
not only regarding battery usage but also in terms of network traf c. Accordingly, although context-aware
applications can improve user experiences in their daily lives, they must ensure the maintenance of lowlevel
resource consumption; otherwise, the applications are promptly replaced by less consuming ones, and
therefore, removed from the mobile market. In this paper, we evaluate and discuss several architectural
styles for context-aware mobile applications, as well as, providing a set of guidelines to decide on the
right architecture for a particular app depending on its characteristics. The use of such guidelines when
choosing the right architectural style can strongly in uence the resource consumption of context-aware
mobile applications. Following these guidelines, user satisfaction of a context-aware mobile application
may be improved, thus guaranteeing the app success.

%K Context awareness
%K mobile computing
%K Internet computing
%K resource consumption
%~ Universidad de Cádiz