A Middleware for Mobile Spontaneous Short-Range Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile devices have evolved from simple datebooks, contacts keepers or voice devices to cutting-edge per- sonal digital assistants, aliasing or combining on-the-fly video/audio acquisition and data processing. But giving the best usage to all this new technology in our day-by-day tasks still is challenging. The large variety of devices, the increasing need for ubiquitous mobile services and the net- work heterogeneity are just some problems developers may find when deploying for the mobile world. In this paper we describe a framework to help developers easily create ap- plications capable of managing and sharing digital content within groups of people on a spontaneous short-range ad- hoc network. We describe the framework architecture, its services and their relationship, as well as some usage sce- narios, applications and related works.