Performance of mobile Web Service Access using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Authors: Gehlen, Guido and Bergs, Ralf
Department of Communication Networks (ComNets), Faculty 6, RWTH Aachen University
: Guido Gehlen
In Proceedings of World Wireless Congress 2004, p.p. 427-432, San Francisco, USA, 2004.
Publication Date: 05, 2004
On page(s):427-432
ISBN:
Abstract
Accessing XML Web Services from mobile clients is a flexible and promising concept to build complex mobile business applications. Due to the computing constraints of mobile clients and bandwidth limitations of mobile communication systems performance considerations are essential. Usually Web Services are accessible through standard internet protocols like HTTP, but within mobile communication networks it is quite ine cient. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) suite provides protocols optimized for packet oriented communication over mobile links. The interconnection to existing HTTP Web Services is achieved by the use of a WAP gateway. This article presents a realization to access Web Services from J2ME mobile devices using WAP. For this, a Java Wireless Session Protocol (WSP) implementation has been developed. The performance of this WAP based access compared to HTTP is analyzed in terms of criteria as latency, data transfer volume, memory footprint and CPU power requirements.
Author Keywords
SOAP, WAP, Web Services, J2ME
DownloadBibtex
@INPROCEEDINGS{gugewwc2004,
AUTHOR = {Gehlen, G. and Bergs, R.},
TITLE = {Performance of mobile Web Service Access using the Wireless Application
Protocol (WAP)},
YEAR = {2004},
MONTH = {05},
PAGES = {427-432},
ADDRESS = {San Francisco, USA},
BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of World Wireless Congress 2004},
ORGANIZATION = {University Aachen, Communication Networks},
AFFILIATION = {Department of Communication Networks (ComNets), Faculty 6, RWTH Aachen University},
ISSN = {1529-2592},
KEYWORDS = {SOAP, WAP, Web Services, J2ME},
ANNOTE = {SOAP, WAP, Web Services, J2ME},
URL = {https://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de}
}