ShareAnywhere: A Platform for Developing Mobile Sharing Applications

Nowadays mobile users carry a huge amount of information inside their devices (mobile phones, ipods, PDAs, etc.). Actually, digital contents are not only carried but created on the road using mobile devices equipped with cameras, audio and video recorders, location systems, etc. Nevertheless, only the P2P-based systems, which work well only in wired networks, are able to easily share these contents among users. In this paper we propose a technological platform which makes simple and flexible the development of file-sharing applications among mobile users. The proposed platform makes use of existing wireless technologies available in an increasing number of mobile devices. A realistic application scenario, called Ateneonfly, will be described in detail, showing the main characteristics and novelty of the system proposed.