Davies, Nigel and Blair, Gordon S. and Cheverst, Keith and Friday, Adrian and , EPSRC (Funder) (1996) Supporting Collaborative Applications in a Heterogeneous Mobile Environment. Special Issue of Computer Communications on Mobile Computing, 19. pp. 346-358.
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Abstract
This paper describes the implementation and use of a platform designed to support collaborative multimedia applications in a mobile environment. The platform provides a programming interface compatible with emerging open systems standards and includes services for processing multimedia information. In addition, the platform provides feedback to applications and users on the state of their communications infrastructure - an important requirement in mobile environments. The services provided by the platform have been used to develop a collaborative multimedia application designed to support a specific class of mobile worker, i.e. field engineers. The design decisions taken in our implementation of both platform and application are evaluated, and our experiences are presented.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Special Issue of Computer Communications on Mobile Computing |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mobile Computing ; Open Distributed Processing ; Co-operative Work ; Adaptive Applications ; Quality-of-Service cs_eprint_id ; 1486 cs_uid ; 352 |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > School of Computing & Communications |
| ID Code: | 12978 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_comp |
| Deposited On: | 18 Jun 2008 12:27 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 15:04 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/12978 |
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