Collaboration and Document Editing on Bandwidth-Limited Devices

Authors

Eyal de Lara

Rajnish Kumar

Dan S. Wallach

Willy Zwaenepoel

Abstract

This paper presents the design of CoFi, a novel architecture for supporting document editing and collaborative work over bandwidth-limited clients. CoFi combines the previously disjoint notions of consistency and fidelity in a unified architecture. CoFi enables bandwidth-limited clients to edit documents that are only partially present at the client (because parts of the documents were lossily transcoded, or only a portion of the document was fetched), and to propagate modifications incrementally by progressively increasing their fidelity.

Published

In Proceedings of the Workshop on Application Models and Programming Tools for Ubiquitous Computing (UbiTools'01). Atlanta, Georgia. September, 2001.

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