A collaboration middleware for service scalability in peer-to-peer systems

Abstract

We introduce a novel mobile middleware which provides a collaboration service among associated apps in a symmetric fashion. This paper focuses on the challenge that how users can receive the seamless collaboration services regardless of the changes of physical device configurations in the multiscreen environment. In order to solve this problem, we propose a novel system architecture which supports primitive operations for collaborating among distributed applications, such as remote invocation, session join, session invitation, push migration, pull migration and synchronization. Our system can provide communication transparency, seamless collaboration services and scalability among heterogeneous distributed applications. The experimental results demonstrate that our system can be successfully applied to the collaboration services among multiple apps in the home network environment.