DocumentCode :
3021142
Title :
A general collaborative platform for mobile multi-user applications
Author :
Lim, Mingyu ; Nijdam, Niels ; Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia
Author_Institution :
MIRALab, Univ. of Geneva Battelle, Carouge
fYear :
2008
fDate :
15-18 Sept. 2008
Firstpage :
1346
Lastpage :
1353
Abstract :
The aim of this paper is to propose a communication middleware which makes it possible to easily and efficiently develop the networking support for multi-user applications. Even though existing middleware and development tools provides lots of functionalities to realize distributed applications, they are purely low-level services passing the most development to developers or too specialized for a specific application. It brings a challenging issue of how to support sufficient and general high-level mechanisms by the middleware. To meet different networking and interaction requirements of multiple users, our approach is to address various possibilities of the communication architecture, the user membership management, the content transmission mechanism and the event management. In each requiring feature, the proposed middleware provides several options with application-level APIs and configuration so that the different interaction needs of a multi-user application can be easily handled in the developerspsila point of view.
Keywords :
groupware; middleware; mobile communication; mobile computing; telecommunication network management; application-level API; collaborative platform; communication middleware; content transmission mechanism; distributed application; event management; mobile multiuser application; user membership management; Authentication; Collaboration; Communication channels; Content management; Functional programming; IP networks; Middleware; Mobile communication; Sockets; Web and internet services;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2008. ETFA 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1505-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1506-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.2008.4638574
Filename :
4638574
Link To Document :
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