System Support for Mobility.

Abstract

As we move closer to world-wide networking and the merger of computing and communications, truly mobile computing-computing while on the move-will become as unexceptional as truly mobile communication (using cellular telephones) is today. However, mobile computing poses new challenges for both system and application designers. Unlike telephony, where a new communications and terminal infrastructure was created to provide a well-understood service (peer-to-peer voice communication), and inter-operability was maintained at the central office, to realize the vision of mobile computing we need to adapt existing applications, and inter-operability must be provided for between peer applications and systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA316880

Entities

People

  • Andrew N Black
  • Jon Inouye

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Bandwidth
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Mobile Communications
  • Mobile Computing
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Network Topology
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • User Interface
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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