Efficient mobile access to the WWW over GSM

Abstract

this paper, we propose an application support for WWW access based on a different paradigm than the previous work: we use mobile agents to delegate all time-consuming operations to the network, in particular, downloading documents and datatype specific distillation of their contents. In the remainder of this paper, we analyze the problem of mobile access to the WWW (Section 2), we overview the MAP architecture (Section 3), we present Alycta, an application that allows efficient access to WWW from mobile hosts connected via GSM (Section 4), and outline conclusions (Section 5). 2 Mobile Access to the WWW