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A communication infrastructure to ease the development of mobile collaborative applications

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Juan RodríGuez-Covili,

Sergio F. Ochoa,

Dolors RoyoAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Volume 34, Issue 6

Pages 1883 - 1893

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2010.12.014

Published: 01 November 2011 Publication History

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.

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