Resource Sharing in Collaborative Environments: Performance Considerations

Current collaborative environments are now largely populated of a great diversity of heterogeneous mobile devices. In environments such as m-health, the employment of pervasive devices represents an important communication link in gathering information that can be accessed or provided by other shared resources immerse in the environment. Particularly in medical environments, resource sharing middlewares can give rise to an endless number of potential applications to support medical specialists in collaboratively gathering vital health information of a patient. However, the applicability of this technological support which highly depends on the performance provided by the middleware communication channel has not been analyzed. Hence, in this paper, we provide initial results based on a series of experiments aimed at demonstrating the applicability and robustness of resource sharing in hospital work scenarios where, due to its popularity Bluetooth has been adopted by resource sharing middlewares as the main communication channel.