Description
Mobile Web services provide access to Web content anywhere and anytime. This book describes key network elements, software components, and software protocols needed to realize these services, including the concept of user context and its potential to create personalized services. Examined mobile Web functions include location representation and tracking, security schemes, content personalization approaches, privacy mechanisms, and XSLT processing for browser content generation. The author reviews the WAP and i-mode architectures, latest mobile phone features, and describes key aspects of browser mark-up languages (WML, cHTML, and XHTML MP). Ontology concepts to enable the wireless Semantic Web are described and this book puts forward a novel definition and categorization of mobile user context in RDF Schema. An elaborated case-study of a mobile network with code samples in XML and Java is included. The book is intended for wireless Web architects, network managers, and graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science.
A guide to the network and software elements that are needed to implement mobile web services.
About the Author
ARIEL PASHTAN is president of Aware Networks, Inc., developing Web-based services and enabling technologies for the wireless Internet. He has over 20 years of software research and development experience working for Motorola, IBM, Gould, and Israel Aircraft Industries. His academic experience includes appointments at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, directing students' research projects, and teaching operating systems courses.
Reviews
'The book is written in easy, understandable English, with many valuable pictures visualizing the content of the book. There are a lot of good source code examples complementing the content of the book. Each chapter ends with references and supplemental reading related to the content of the chapter. I would recommend the book for students interested in wireless services and networks, mobile network managers, and as a good introduction to the subject for engineers interested in designing Web services in wireless networks.' IEEE Communications Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9780521830492
Author Ariel Pashtan
Format Hardback
Page Count 284
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 716g
Dimensions(mm) 253mm * 180mm * 23mm
A guide to the network and software elements that are needed to implement mobile web services.
About the Author
ARIEL PASHTAN is president of Aware Networks, Inc., developing Web-based services and enabling technologies for the wireless Internet. He has over 20 years of software research and development experience working for Motorola, IBM, Gould, and Israel Aircraft Industries. His academic experience includes appointments at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, directing students' research projects, and teaching operating systems courses.
Reviews
'The book is written in easy, understandable English, with many valuable pictures visualizing the content of the book. There are a lot of good source code examples complementing the content of the book. Each chapter ends with references and supplemental reading related to the content of the chapter. I would recommend the book for students interested in wireless services and networks, mobile network managers, and as a good introduction to the subject for engineers interested in designing Web services in wireless networks.' IEEE Communications Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9780521830492
Author Ariel Pashtan
Format Hardback
Page Count 284
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 716g
Dimensions(mm) 253mm * 180mm * 23mm
