Mobile Collaboration: a Collaborative Editing Service in the Cloud

Nowadays, we assist to an explosion of mobile applications due to the rapid development of smartphones. These smart phones are becoming the device of choice for people to collaborate with family members, friends and business colleagues and/or customers. However, building ad-hoc collaboration around mobile applications requires increasing amounts of computation, data storage and network communications. Moreover, preserving the consistency in a decentralized way of the manipulated shared documents under constraints of the mobile applications, namely the freshness and the energy consumption, remains still a great challenge. In this paper, we propose a new Mobile Collaboration service-based approach in the cloud dealing with this problem.