Title :
W4-the Wireless World Wide Web
Author :
Bartlett, Joel F.
Author_Institution :
Western Res. Lab., Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract :
A number of people see personal digital assistants, PDAs, with wireless communication as the next big thing in the computer industry. However, the current PDA´s obvious limitations in computational power, storage, communication bandwidth, and display size pose the questions: can you build anything, and if so, would anyone want to use it? In order to put these dreams in perspective, we decided to build a wireless interactive PDA-based client to access the World Wide Web. The paper describes our design choices and experience with W4, the Wireless World Wide Web
Keywords :
Internet; client-server systems; internetworking; notebook computers; wide area networks; Internet; PDAs; W4; Wireless World Wide Web; personal digital assistants; wireless communication; wireless interactive PDA-based client; Bandwidth; Computer displays; Computer industry; Data communication; Mobile communication; Modems; Personal digital assistants; Web sites; Wireless communication; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 1994. Proceedings., Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Santa Cruz, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6345-6
DOI :
10.1109/MCSA.1994.513479
