A communication infrastructure to ease the development of mobile collaborative applications

  • Authors:
  • Juan RodríGuez-Covili;Sergio F. Ochoa;José A. Pino;Roc Messeguer;Esunly Medina;Dolors Royo

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile;Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile;Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile;Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Mobile workers doing loosely coupled activities typically perform on demand collaboration in the physical workplace. Communication services available in such work scenarios are uncertain, therefore mobile collaborative applications supporting those activities must provide ad hoc communication mechanisms in order to use each cooperation opportunity. Typically, the complexity of implementing such mobile ad hoc communication mechanisms becomes a challenge that jeopardizes the development of mobile collaborative solutions. This article presents a communication infrastructure named HLMP API dealing with that challenge. HLMP API intends to ease the development of such applications through the reuse of communication services. The infrastructure is an application programming interface that implements the HLMP routing protocol and also some awareness mechanisms that are required for mobile loosely coupled work. Developers using this infrastructure do not have to perform low-level programming.