Title :
Services to support consistency in mobile collaborative applications
Author :
Cheverst, Keith ; Davies, Nigel ; Friday, Adrian ; Blair, Gordon S.
Author_Institution :
Distributed Multimedia Res. Group, Lancaster Univ., UK
Abstract :
This paper describes the design of services to support consistency in collaborative mobile applications. The requirements for application level consistency in groupware applications are discussed and it is argued that existing consistency services for mobile environments fail to address these requirements because they assume infrequent (write) sharing of information. We present the design of a group execution service called G-QEX which is designed to support consistency in mobile applications and includes features necessary to cope with the fluctuations in QoS which characterise mobile environments
Keywords :
data communication; groupware; land mobile radio; open systems; protocols; telecommunication services; QoS; application level consistency; group execution service; groupware applications; mobile collaborative applications; mobile environments; mobile open systems technologies; quality of service driven remote execution protocol; utilities industries; Application software; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Feedback; Fluctuations; Mobile computing; Programming profession; Protocols; Quality of service;
Conference_Titel :
Services in Distributed and Networked Environments, 1996., Proceedings of Third International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7499-7
DOI :
10.1109/SDNE.1996.502444
