A mobile distributed system for remote resource access

Abstract

Mobile and distributed systems involve multiple mobile computers processing data and communicating the results to each other, such as in electronic commerce or online voting, where the users are geographically separated. Our contribution is on mobile distributed applications based on embedded platforms such as smartphones or tablets. We provide a definition of a protocol called MEXP which stands for Mobile Exchange eXperiment Protocol. It allows the exposure of local resources on a mobile device to other mobile computers of the distributed system. The kinds of resources are pictures and sounds which are recorded with a mobile device during lab activities. They require the use of a local Wi-Fi network for the security of the recorded data. The lab activities evolve over time and the observers have remote access to the pictures and sounds for validation and tagging. This work has resulted in the acceptance of our mobile distributed application by an academic training team in the Biology department.