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 personal 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 network 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 applications 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 scenarios, applications and related works.