AN ARCHITECTURAL FRAMEWORK FOR COLLABORATION OF HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNICATION DEVICES USING WAP AND MOBILE DEVICE AUGMENTED (MDA) GATEWAY INTEGRATION

摘要

Within the last couple of years, the challenge of displaying collaborative multimediaudinformation has become very important with the large diversity of communication devicesudsuch as Personal Computers, laptops, notebooks and handheld devices. The shared dataudand information may be presented with different views depending on the communicationuddevice used by a particular collaborator. The use of various web tools (HTML, WML etc)udoffers some solutions to the problem but if the target application requires more complexudfeatures such as rich multimedia data than is manageable using HTML or WML format,udsomething else need to be done. In this paper, we propose a framework that integrates WAPudand MDA Gateway to support collaboration among virtual teams and nomadic workersudusing heterogeneous communication devices. We then discuss an approach for augmentingudmobile device small screen capabilities with surrounding large screen display devices.