Thomas Kunz
Systems and Computer Engineering
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Adaptive Mobile Applications:
System Overview
Mobile Device
Base Station
Correspondent Host
(e.g., WWW server)
Computing Paradigm: Client-Proxy-Server
Client: mobile device
reduced computational power
limited I/O facilities
low-bandwidth wireless connection
Proxy: at or close to the base station
can support client-server interaction
can be considered as part of client
Server: traditional server, executes unchanged on
correspondent host
Internet
Cloud