Communication support for mobile collaborative work: An experimental study

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1035-1063

  Messeguer, Roc ^a   Medina, Esunly ^a   Ochoa, Sergio F ^b   Pino, José A ^b   Neyem, Andres ^c   Navarro, Leandro ^a   Royo, Dolors ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Communication support; Experimental study; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871264448     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622012400147     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (49)

1. P. Antunes, R. Bandeira, L. Carriço, G. Zurita, N. Baloian and R. Vogt, Risk assessment in healthcare collaborative settings: A case study using SHELL, in Proc. of the 14th Int. Workshop en Groupware, Omaha, Nebraska, LNCS, Vol. 5411 (2008), pp. 65-73.
2. M. Tentori and J. Favela, Activity-aware computing for healthcare, IEEE Pervasive Computing 7(2) (2008) 51-57.
3. R. Valdivia, M. Nussbaum and S. F. Ochoa, Modeling a collaborative answer negotiation activity using IMS-based learning design, IEEE Transactions on Education 52 (3) (2009) 375-384.
4. G. Zurita, N. Baloian and F. Baytelman, Using mobile devices to foster social interactions in the classroom, in Proc. 12th Int. Conf. Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, Xi'an, China (2008), pp. 1041-1046.
5. G. Zurita, N. Baloian and F. Baytelman, A collaborative face-to-face design support system based on sketching and gesturing, Advanced Engineering Informatics 22 (2008) 340-349.
6. R. Aldunate, S. Ochoa, F. Pena-Mora and M. Nussbaum, Robust mobile ad hoc space for collaboration to support disaster relief efforts involving critical physical infrastructure, J. Computing in Civil Engineering 20(1) (2006) 13-27.
7. A. Monares, S. F. Ochoa, J. A. Pino, V. Herskovic and A. Neyem, Mobile computing in urban emergency situations: Improving the support to firefighters in the field, Expert Systems with Applications 38(2) (2011) 1255-1267.
8. J. H. E. Andriessen and M. Vartiainen, Mobile Virtual Work: A New Paradigm? (Springer, Berlin, 2006).
9. S. F. Ochoa, G. Bravo, J. A. Pino and J. F. Rodriguez, Coordinating loosely-coupled work in construction inspection activities, J. Group Decision and Negotiation 20(1) (2011) 39-56.
10. C. A. Ellis, S. J. Gibbs and G. L. Rein, Groupware: Some issues and experiences, Communications of the ACM 34(1) (1991) 38-58.
11. V. Herskovic, S. F. Ochoa, J. Pino and A. Neyem, The iceberg effect: Behind the user interface of mobile collaborative systems, J. Universal Computer Science 17(2) (2011) 183-202.
12. D. B. Johnson and D. A. Maltz, Dynamic source routing in ad hoc wireless networks, in Mobile Computing, eds. T. Imielinski and H. Korth (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996), pp. 153-181.
13. J. Dyck, A survey of application-layer networking techniques for real-time distributed groupware, Technical Report HCI-TR-06-06, University of Saskatchewan (2006).
14. T. Whalen and J. P. Black, Adaptive groupware for wireless networks, in Proc. 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computer Systems and Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana (1999), pp. 20-26.
15. J. Rodríguez-Covili, S. F. Ochoa, J. A. Pino, V. Herskovic, J. Favela, D. Mejia and A. Moran, Towards a reference architecture for the design of mobile shared workspaces, Future Generation Computer Systems 27(1) (2011) 109-118.
16. J. Rodríguez-Covili, S. F. Ochoa and J. A. Pino, High level MANET protocol: Enhancing the communication support for mobile collaborative work, J. Network and Computer Applications 35(1) (2012) 145-155.
17. R. Messeguer, S. F. Ochoa, J. A. Pino, L. Navarro and A. Neyem, Communication and coordination patterns to support mobile collaboration, in Proc. 12th Int. Conf. Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, Xi'an, China (2008), pp. 565-570.
18. C. Gutwin, The effects of network delays on group work in real-time groupware, in Proc. 7th European Conf. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Norwell, MA, USA (2001), pp. 299-318.
19. I. Vaghi, C. Greenhalgh and S. Benford, Coping with inconsistency due to network delays in collaborative virtual environments, in Proc. ACM Workshop on Virtual Reality and Software Technology, London, United Kingdom (1999), pp. 42-49.
20. J. Dyck, C. Gutwin, T. C. N. Graham and D. Pinelle, Beyond the LAN: Techniques from network games for improving groupware performance, in Proc. ACM Conf. Supporting Groupwork, Florida, USA (2007), pp. 291-300.
21. R. Gafni, Usability issues in mobile-wireless information systems, J. Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology 6 (2009) 755-769.
22. R. Longoria, Designing mobile applications: Challenges, methodologies, and lessons learned, in Usability Evaluation and Interface Design: Cognitive Engineering, Intelligent Agents and Virtual Reality, (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., New Jersey, 2001), pp. 91-95.
23. O. Lundahl, Usability of mobile applications for near field communication, Master of Science Thesis in the Programme Interaction Design, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Geoteborg, Sweden (2009).
24. D. Zhang and B. Adipat, Challenges, methodologies, and issues in the usability testing of mobile applications, Int. J. Human-Computer Interaction 18(3) (2005) 293-308.
25. P. Saffo, The Consumer Spectrum, Bringing Design to Software (ACM, New York, NY, 1996).
26. W. Kiess and M. Mauve, A survey on real-world implementations of mobile ad hoc networks, Ad Hoc Networks 5(3) (2007) 324-339.
27. J. Bicket, D. Aguayo, S. Biswas and R. Morris, Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network, in Proc. of the Eleventh Annual Int. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking, Cologne, Germany (2005), pp. 31-42.
28. R. G. Garroppo, S. Giordano and L. Tavanti, Experimental evaluation of two open source solutions for wireless mesh routing at layer two, in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Wireless Pervasive Computing, Modena, Italy, May 2010, pp. 5-7.
29. Open802.11s project (2010), http://www.open80211s.org.
30. Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking - B.A.T.M.A.N. - (2008), http://tools. ietf.org/html/draft-wunderlich-openmesh-manet-routing-00.
31. M. Halvorsen, T. Plagemann and M. Siekkinen, Video streaming over manets: Reality or fiction? in Proc. 4th Int. Mobile Multimedia Communications Conf., Oulu, Finland (2008), pp. 34-40.
32. D. Maltz, J. Broch and D. Johnson, Quantitative lessons from a full-scale multi-hop wireless ad hoc network testbed, in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Chicago, IL, USA (2000), pp. 992-997.
33. Y.-C. Hu and D. B. Johnson, Design and demonstration of live audio and video over multihop wireless ad hoc networks, in Proc. Military Communications Conf., Houston, TX, USA (2002), pp. 1211-1216.
34. R. Draves, J. Padhye and B. Zill, Comparison of routing metrics for static multi-hop wireless networks, in Proc. Conf. Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications, New York, NY, USA (2004), pp. 133-144.
35. K.-W. Chin, J. Judge, A. Williams and R. Kermode, Implementation experience with MANET routing protocols, SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 32(5) (2002) 49-59.
36. C. T. Calafate, M. P. Malumbres and P. Manzoni, Performance of H.264 compressed video streams over 802.11b based MANETs, in Proc. of the 24th Int. Conf. Distributed Computing Systems Workshops-W7, Washington, DC, USA (2004), pp. 776-781.
37. P. Jacquet, P. Muhlethaler, T. Clausen, A. Laouiti, A. Qayyum and L. Viennot, Optimized link state routing protocol for ad hoc networks, in Proc. IEEE Int. Multi Topic Conf., Le Chesnay, France (2001), pp. 62-68.
38. V. Park and M. Corson, A highly adaptive distributed routing algorithm for mobile wireless networks, in Proc. IEEE 16th Annual Joint Conf. IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, Kobe, Japan (1997), pp. 1405-1413.
39. C. Perkins and E. Royer, Ad hoc on-demand distance vector routing, in Proc. Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, New Orleans, LA, USA (1999), pp. 90-100.
40. RFC3626 - Optimized Link State Routing Protocol - OLSR - (2003), http://www.ietf. org/rfc/rfc3626.txt.
41. D. Pinelle and C. Gutwin, A groupware design framework for loosely coupled workgroups, in Proc. Ninth European Conf. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Paris, France (2005), pp. 65-82.
42. E. B. Moŕan, M. Tentori, V. Gonzalez, J. Favela and A. I. Martínez-Garcia, Mobility in hospital work: Towards a pervasive computing hospital environment, Int. J. Electronic Healthcare 3(1) (2007) 72-89.
43. A. Neyem, S. F. Ochoa and J. A. Pino, Integrating service-oriented mobile units to support collaboration in ad hoc scenarios, J. Universal Computer Science 14(1) (2008) 88-122.
44. A. Neyem, S. F. Ochoa and J. A. Pino, A patterns system to coordinate mobile groupware applications, Group Decision and Negotiation 20(5) (2011) 563-592.
45. A. Tirumala, M. Gates, F. Qin, J. Dugan and J. Ferguson, The TCP/UDP bandwidth measurement tool (2009), http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf.
46. K. Kanchanasut, A. Tunpan, M. A. Awal, D. K. Das, T. Wongsaardsakul and Y. Tsuchimoto, DUMBONET: A multimedia communication system for collaborative emergency response operations in disaster-affected areas, J. Emergency Management 4(4) (2007) 670-681.
47. C. Tschudin, P. Gunningberg, H. Lundgren and E. Nordstrom, Lessons from experimental MANET research, J. Ad Hoc Networks 3(2) (2005) 221-233.
48. K. Pawlikowski, H.-D. J. Jeong and J.- S. R. Lee, On credibility of simulation studies of telecommunication networks, IEEE Communications Magazine 40(1) (2002) 132-139.
49. R. Alarcón, L. Guerrero, S. Ochoa and J. Pino, Analysis and design of mobile collaborative applications using contextual elements, J. Computing and Informatics 25(6) (2006) 469-496.