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

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