Thomas Kunz
Systems and Computer Engineering
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Services
nMany other
standardized and non-standardized services exist. Mobile computers will need to find out about the existence of these services to provide a complete computing environment to the end-user:
–directory
services: X.500, LDAP
–e-mail
services: POP, IMAP
–other
Internet services: FTP, HTTP, NNTP, DHCP
–non-standardized
services: printers, e-commerce servers, file storage, …..
nOften, find
servers in “neighborhood”, which changes over time
nConfigure
device to use these servers automatically