Wireless Application Protocol

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)

By Sachi Desai

EE583WS section 1

Fall Semester 2002

Professor Murat Sonmez

December 21, 2002

Index

Index………………………………………………………………………………………2

List of Tables and Figures…………………………………………………………………3

List of Terms………………………………………………………………………………4

Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………5

Introduction………………………………………………………………………..……5-6

WAP Model…………………………………………………………………………..…6-7

WAP Device Limitations……………………………………………………………….…8

Architectural Components of WAP…………………………………………………….…8

WAP Gateway…………………………………………………………………………..8-9

WAP Protocol Stack…………………………………………………………………9-12

WAP UAProf and Caching…………………………………………………………12-13

Wireless Bearers for WAP…………………………………………………………..13-14

WAP Developer Toolkits……………………………………………………………14-15

Mobile station Application Execution environment……………………………………..15

WAP Over GPRS…………………………………………………………………….15-16

WAP over Bluetooth Applications……………………………………………….…..16-18

WML to XHTML………………………………………………………………………..18

Why Choose WAP……………………………………………………………………18-19

Summary…………………………………………………………………………………19

References………………………………………………………………………………..20

List of Tables and Figures

Figure 1. Referenced from fig19.1 in Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures……7

Figure 2. Adapted from fig 19.2 Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures…………12

Figure 3. Adapted from fig19.3 Wireless mobile network architectures………………14

Figure 4.Referencing the photo from www.wap.net……………………………………15

Figure 5. Current WAP enabled devices. http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,73,00.html…16

Figure 6. Based on the ideas presented by Nokia for an example of mobile function

http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,5184,1756,00.html……………………………………...18

List of Terms

WAPforum,

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)

Quality of Services (QOS)

Bluetooth

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)

Nokia

Ericsson

Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)

Wireless Datagram Protocol (WDP)

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