Survey of Cloud Messaging Push Notification Service

Cloud messaging push notification services are key features of pervasive mobile applications where invocations occur asynchronously and it is important that the mobile users are notified in a timely fashion of the available services. This article summarizes Push technology evolution including key techniques, features and architectures. It presents four kinds of push notifications such as Microsoft Push Notification service, Google Cloud Messaging, Blackberry Push service, Apple Push Notification service. It also analyses these four push notification approaches. In addition, it proposes a CPTEM to evaluate and select the most appropriate push mechanisms.