GMSME: An Architecture for Heterogeneous Collaboration with Mobile Devices

The importance of network-ready personal devices in collaborative systems is becoming apparent. The participants of a collaborative environment use mobile devices to overcome the physical constraint of using a conventional PC. However, the integration of disparate devices like mobile devices and PCs is difficult, because of the connectivity and the computing power limitations of a mobile device. We believe a dedicated middleware layer that supports universal access, event mapping, user management, and content adaptation is a great help to integrate mobile devices into the collaborative system. In this paper, we propose a ubiquitous computing environment architecture for a collaborative system called Garnet Message System Micro Edition (GMSME). This architecture provides the environment to resolve those issues and is designed efficiently considering the computing resource limitations of mobile devices.