Title :
Mowgli: improvements for Internet applications using slow wireless links
Author :
Alanko, Timo ; Kojo, Markku ; Liljeberg, Mika ; Raatikainen, Kimmo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Helsinki Univ., Finland
Abstract :
Modern cellular telephone systems extend the usability of portable personal computers enormously. A nomadic user can be given ubiquitous access to remote information stores and computing services. However, the behavior of wireless links creates severe inconveniences within the traditional data communication paradigm. We give an overview of the problems related to wireless mobility. We also present a new software architecture for mastering the problems and discuss a new paradigm for designing mobile distributed applications. The key idea in the architecture is to place a mediator, a distributed intelligent agent, between the mobile node and the wireline network
Keywords :
Internet; cellular radio; data communication; distributed processing; land mobile radio; microcomputer applications; portable computers; software agents; software engineering; Internet applications; Mowgli; WWW software; cellular telephone systems; data communication; distributed intelligent agent; mobile distributed applications; mobile node; portable personal computers; remote computing services; remote information stores; software architecture; wireless links; wireless mobility; wireline network; Availability; Communication system control; Data communication; GSM; IP networks; Intelligent agent; Internet telephony; Mobile computing; TCPIP; Wireless application protocol;
Conference_Titel :
Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1997. Waves of the Year 2000. PIMRC '97., The 8th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Helsinki
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3871-5
DOI :
10.1109/PIMRC.1997.627044
