Abstract

The mobility of the collaborators, the diverse technologies available to support them and the continuous change in the collaboration scenarios bring new challenges to design, implement, and reuse communication software for these complex systems. This article presents a design patterns system to help modeling the communication services required to support mobile collaboration. These patterns serve as educational media for developers, students or researchers on how to design communication services for mobile collaborative applications. The patterns also foster the reuse of proven solutions. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.