Abstract

Since long time ago, information sharing has been the base to support collaboration in several scenarios. Advances in mobile technology have extended such collaboration scenarios including one-hop and multi-hop wireless networks. Traditional strategies to share information in wired networks are not suitable for mobile scenarios because they do not consider the disturbing networking aspects such as high disconnection rate, dynamic topology and the low bandwidth. The use of hand-held devices to share documents. This paper presents a strategy based on XML to share information in MANETs (Mobile Adhoc NETworks) using hand-held devices, considering disconnections and instability of the network bandwidth. This strategy is currently implemented in PASIR (service Platform for Ad-hoc Sharing Information Resources) and it can be considered by other middleware products when design the data sharing support. In addition, many groupware applications could be designed using this strategy, i.e.: distributed technical presentations, casual interactions, brainstorm ing, meetings for decision making and software technical reviews.