Improving communications with bluetooth enabled collaborative middleware in MANET

Abstract

The main aim of the research presented in this paper was to investigate how can collaborative middleware based collaborative working environment (CWE), combined with bluetooth technology, enhance the communications of mobile users. The high level collaborative middleware is a research and technology development (RTD) challenge and a desirable research outputs for CWEs. This paper outlines a collaborative middleware that has been developed on smartphone technology and enables the creation of a multi-user CWE via a bluetooth network. To achieve this aim, it started with discussing the key design parameters, and then the design of collaborative middleware with collaborative functionality; ended by completed a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis with focus group to determine the collaborative middleware's potential impact to improve communications between users. The result of the evaluation concludes the bluetooth enabled collaborative middleware can improve the communications of mobile ad-hoc networks. This research also provides two key areas of contribution. Firstly it provides an evolutionary step for the creation of new collaborative applications. Secondly, it has optimised the use of bluetooth beyond the functionality for which it was originally designed.