Title :
WiSAP: a wireless personal access network for handheld computing devices
Author :
Bisdikian, Chatschik ; Bhagwat, Pravin ; Gaucher, Brian P. ; Janniello, Frank J. ; Naghshineh, Mahmoud ; Pandoh, Puneet ; Korpeoglu, Ibrahim
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
fDate :
12/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
New short-range wireless communication technologies would enable environment-aware, mobile, personal area networks. These new technologies will serve as enablers for ubiquitous, low-cost, low-complexity, small-sized information appliances. These appliances will serve as interaction tools between humans and computer-driven services and applications existing in either the close or distant vicinity of humans. The new application paradigms these new technologies will enable are explored. Furthermore, an experimental wireless personal access networking platform called WiSAP, developed to research these new technologies and applications paradigms, is presented. Finally, some of the experiences gained from WiSAP while designing a consumer-oriented portable wireless communication system suitable for wireless mobile personal access networks are also presented
Keywords :
land mobile radio; mobile computing; notebook computers; personal communication networks; portable computers; radio access networks; WiSAP; computer-driven services; consumer-oriented portable wireless communication system; environment-aware networks; handheld computing devices; information appliances; interaction tools; mobile networks; personal area networks; short-range wireless communication; wireless mobile personal access networks; Application software; Communications technology; Computer applications; Computer networks; Handheld computers; Home appliances; Humans; Personal area networks; Pervasive computing; Wireless communication;
Journal_Title :
Personal Communications, IEEE
