• DocumentCode
    3352416
  • Title

    Mobile instant messaging

  • Author

    Parviainen, Roland ; Parnes, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Lulea Univ. of Technol., Sweden
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    23 Feb.-1 March 2003
  • Firstpage
    425
  • Abstract
    We describe a mobile instant messaging system, MIM, designed for mobile environments. During the design of mobile applications, several new problems and possibilities have to be considered that do not exist with applications targeted at desktop PCs. One example of an application not designed for a mobile environment is the current, very popular, instant messaging, typified by systems such as ICQ, AIM and MSN Messenger. We describe why current systems are not suitable in a mobile environment, and present our architecture for a new system, MIM, and show various implementations for different mobile devices such as PDAs, wearable computers and mobile phones.
  • Keywords
    electronic messaging; mobile computing; mobile radio; telecommunication services; AIM; ICQ; MSN Messenger; PDA; mobile instant messaging; mobile phones; wearable computers; Application software; Computer science; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Personal communication networks; Personal digital assistants; Protocols; Switches; User interfaces; Wearable computers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Telecommunications, 2003. ICT 2003. 10th International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7661-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTEL.2003.1191273
  • Filename
    1191273