We address issues related to mobility, personalization and asynchronous operation to support efficient access to the World Wide Web across weakly connected or low bandwidth wireless links. WWW provides a large globally, distributed computing and information access infrastructure. With the large amount of accessible information came the problem of information overload, making the process of finding content of interest a difficult issue. This is further exacerbated in mobile environments because of the well known resource constraints. We have developed MobileIQ, a distributed system and service infrastructure that can offer personalized mobile information access in a wireless network environment. MobileIQ addresses challenges unique to a mobile environment such as mobility management and disconnection management, in addition to issues common to all environments: content personalization, bandwidth utilization, download latencies, and user privacy. We also demonstrate how this architecture may be used to provide location-based services to users of the MobileIQ system.
['Purnima Chandrasekaran', 'Anupam Joshi']
MobileIQ: a framework for mobile information access