Adaptação da Api Nearby Connections para uso dos padrões de comunicação request-reply, publishsubscribe e pipeline.

Abstract

In several scenarios the use of the internet infrastructure may not be the best means of exchanging data between applications. In such cases, the devices may be too close at the point that they can exchange data directly with each other. However, for this to happen, it is required that several challenges and problems are solved. These problems are the focus of several types of networks and technologies, each focusing on solving part of these problems, such as the Nearby Connections API. This API provides offline connection and data exchange services between devices. However, its services are provided in a very abstract and non-semantic way. Therefore, this work proposes an improvement so that three communication patterns are made available by the API in question. In this way, applications consuming the Nearby Connections service will be able to choose roles defined by the patterns introduced, making the API more semantic.