An Overview of Mobile Applications Architecture and the Associated Technologies

Author

BEJI, Sofien ; Kadhi, Nabil El

Author_Institution

RIADI GDL Lab., Nat. Sch. of Comput. Sci., Manouba

fYear

2008

fDate

July 27 2008-Aug. 1 2008

Firstpage

77

Lastpage

83

Abstract

A mobile service covers a large field of technologies ranging from the mobile device such as a PDA or a phone to the enterprise content server through all the wired and wireless networks between them. In this paper, the focus is given to the client side application, the associated technologies and chosen frameworks to built these kind of contents. Some samples of technologies will be presented ranging from the Wireless Web with WML and xHTML contents to fat client based technology mainly the J2ME platform. APIs and protocols for messaging and synchronization are also part of mobile applications. A brief overview of security features is presented at the last section of this paper.

Keywords

Internet; mobile communication; mobile handsets; notebook computers; security of data; synchronisation; wireless LAN; J2ME platform; PDA; WML content; client side application; enterprise content server; messaging protocols; mobile applications; mobile device; mobile phone; mobile service; security features; synchronization; wired networks; wireless Web; wireless networks; xHTML content; Application software; Computer architecture; Information systems; Laboratories; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Network servers; Operating systems; Web server; Wireless application protocol; applications; architecture; device; mobility;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Communications, 2008. ICWMC '08. The Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3274-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3274-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWMC.2008.55

Filename

4591268