Mobile collaboration is required in several work scenarios, i.e. education,
healthcare, business and disaster relief. The features and capabilities of the
communication infrastructure used by mobile collaborative applications will
influence the type of coordination and collaboration that can be supported in
real work scenarios. Developers of these applications are typically unaware of
the constraints the communication infrastructure imposes on the collaborative
system. Therefore, this paper presents an experimental study of how ad-hoc
networks can effectively support mobile collaborative work. The article
analyzes several networking issues and it determines how they influence the
collaborative work. The paper also presents the lessons learned and it provides
recommendations to deal with the networking issues intrinsic to adhoc networks.