Application design for wireless computing

As mobile computing becomes more prevalent, systems and applications must deal with a growing disparity in resource types and availability at the user interface device. Network characteristics, display size, method of input, local storage and computing are some of the more obviously affected components. Although the challenges of effectively managing these resources are partially addressed by existing systems, their solutions are hindered by the system´s lack of knowledge about the application´s behavior. This, combined with the narrower domain of applications commonly used during mobile computing, suggests the need to address these concerns from the application level. This paper presents strategies for designing applications for a wireless environment, by reducing the demands placed on the wireless network. A World Wide Web client browser is used to illustrate this design