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

Imran Abbas Khawaja,Adnan Abid,Adnan Shahzada,Kamran Abid,Muhammad Shoaib Farooq,Uzma Farooq

doi:10.1109/access.2020.2980319

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.

Highlights

We have seen a tremendous increase in the demand of electronic devices during the last few years
Service Discovery & Group Formation: Time taken by the device to discover the broadcasted service and form the WiFi Direct based ad-hoc network
DIRECTION This article presents an architectural framework that is a step towards the materialization of the vision of ubiquitous computing by presenting a framework named ad-hoc Collaboration Space (ACS)

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Introduction

We have seen a tremendous increase in the demand of electronic devices during the last few years. Many different types of devices such as tablets, cell phones, and smart watches are available in the market with affordable prices. These devices are manufactured by different vendors and work on a variety of platforms [35]. There are numerous situations where many users get connected with one or more devices to share data and use services. The study conducted by the Facebook on multi device usage has revealed people intense interest to use electronic devices in their daily activities [1]. The result has shown that more than 60% of the adults in the US use at least two devices every day, and one quarter use three devices, while more than 40% start activity on one device and

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