Designing a Service Platform for Sharing Internet Resources in MANETs

Nowadays, there is great interest to develop future Internet applications supporting resource sharing in mobile networks. This usually entails maintaining the consistency of those shared resources, that is, between different replicas of the resources. Moreover, mobile networks are characterized by varying capacity, in part, caused by their mobility, which also derives in frequent networking disconnections and network partitions. Therefore, to ensure the consistency of replicated resources being shared in a mobile network is more complicated that in networks with infrastructure support, as it requires to process events associated with the use of the resources themselves as well as those related with the state of the network. In response, in this paper an event-driven platform consisting of two services (monitoring and synchronization) and an underlying middleware has been designed in order to address the consistency of shared Internet resources in mobile networks in a simple way. The synchronization service only needs to be specialized to adapt the resource, depending on its type, to the required use in a particular system. The proposal is illustrated through the example of a collaborative document editor.