Title :
Using mobile phones to improve offline access to online information: Distributed Content Delivery
Author :
Zhang, Jinglan ; Geva, Shlomo ; Trotman, Andrew
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Sci. & Technol., Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Abstract :
Mobile phones are now powerful and pervasive making them ideal information browsers. The Internet has revolutionized our lives and is a major knowledge sharing media. However, many mobile phone users cannot access the Internet (for financial or technical reasons) and so the mobile Internet has not been fully realized. We propose a novel content delivery network based on both a factual and speculative analysis of today´s technology and analyze its feasibility. If adopted people living in remote regions without Internet will be able to access essential (static) information with periodic updates.
Keywords :
Internet; information resources; mobile computing; mobile handsets; distributed content delivery; information browsers; mobile Internet; mobile phones; offline access; online information; Computer architecture; Encyclopedias; HTML; Internet; Mobile communication; Servers; Mobile computing; content delivery; information access; knowledge dissemination;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile IT Convergence (ICMIC), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Gyeongsangbuk-do
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1128-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-89-88678-61-9