Ad-Hoc Collaboration Space for Distributed Cross Device Mobile Application Development

Abstract

In last few years, a tremendous increase has been observed in the usage of portable electronic devices including smart phones, tablets, laptops, and wearables. These devices are produced by different manufacturers and work on different platforms. People surrounded by these devices need to interact with them during the meeting, presentation, class room and lots of other collaborative activities to share and receive information across the devices. Recent research trends lead towards better utilization of these mobile devices by connecting them together, whereas the interaction among these devices is still device centric and is dependent on expensive fixed software and hardware infrastructure. However, ad-hoc settings, where fixed infrastructure services do not exist, or may suspend the interaction across these devices, require specialized collaborative space. This research presents an architectural framework, named Ad-hoc Collaborative Space (ACS) that provides an abstraction layer by hiding the complexities of ad-hoc environment thus resulting into reduced application development time by providing the easy to use API's. The experimental evaluation based on different operating parameters shows that the proposed framework efficiently manages service registration, service discovery, synchronization, and connectivity between different devices.

Keywords

• Cross-device
• collaborative applications
• distributed interface
• WiFi Direct
• ad-hoc network
• ad-hoc collaboration space