Building real-world ad-hoc networks to support mobile collaborative applications: lessons learned

Authors:
Roc Messeguer;Sergio F. Ochoa;José A. Pino;Esunly Medina;Leandro Navarro;Dolors Royo;Andrés Neyem
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain;Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile;Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile;Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain;Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain;Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain;Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Venue:
CRIWG'09 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Groupware: design, implementation, and use
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Mobile collaboration is required in several work scenarios, i.e. education, healthcare, business and disaster relief. The features and capabilities of the communication infrastructure used by mobile collaborative applications will influence the type of coordination and collaboration that can be supported in real work scenarios. Developers of these applications are typically unaware of the constraints the communication infrastructure imposes on the collaborative system. Therefore, this paper presents an experimental study of how ad-hoc networks can effectively support mobile collaborative work. The article analyzes several networking issues and it determines how they influence the collaborative work. The paper also presents the lessons learned and it provides recommendations to deal with the networking issues intrinsic to adhoc networks.