I am an amateur and need some help.
I am working on a project, where character devices on an android phone must show up on the /dev directory of a linux PC. It can be shared via bluetooth /wi-fi or maybe USB.

For example character devices like camera and accelerometer of the phone must me shared seamlessly from a Linux PC so that the PC thinks that these devices are its own.

Here is the framework on how to implement it.

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Server- Phone, Client- PC

This was taken from an IEEE paper called "Remote Virtual Peripheral Framework: Enabling Dynamically Composed Devices". The paper implemented this on a nokia maemo device. I figure, it can be done on an android device too, once its rooted.(I have a Desire HD and going root it)

I don't know where to start. I have looked all over the net, but nothing of this sort is present.
I have learnt about creating device drivers in linux, compiling them and adding them as modules and making them show up in /dev.
Since “everything is a file” on linux, Can it be shared , using bluetooth library or something.
Please direct me where to go next. Thank you.

Here's how to start

1. Root the Android - xda-developers.com's forums or cyanogenmod.com's wiki are probably searchable on this. If the searches are blank, it may not be rootable.

2. It sounds like you are putting a rare amount of messing and software upon yourself to make something happen for which I see no huge advantage. My old Android has an Arm6 cpu running up to 528Mhz, "multitasking ability", internet access and a "hard disk" with space, a "sound card" and "graphics". Does one University student smell the project of another?

Running the pc from the Android, that might be more interesting.

yeah
I disagree. The possibilities of the proposed frame work is amazing. Imagine a smart environment, where all your devices - Pc, phone, Tv etc can access the sensors and peripheral s of each other as if its its own.
i quote from the paper: Which was actually submitted by Nokia research Labs

I just want to use this framework to make available all the sensors/peripherals like, camera, accelorometer, gyroscope,GPS etc , on the android phone to be available remotely from the linux PC. All these devices on the phone must show up in the /dev of the pc. That would be intresting. eg you can use camera on the android phone as a webcam on the pc.
I know there are applications that can do that. But this would be different- it would apply to all the devices.And there is no need to install a seperate app to do this.

I am not sure how thats relevant

Ok, I retract.

You are going to have this problem: linux wants to be secure, users, groups, and doing stuff as root is generally a bad idea. So now root is available in the ether. . .

Enjoy the challenge! Next year's project for me is in fibre optics.