Wireless Application Protocol

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Background Market study has shown that the number of mobile users is exceeding the number of PC users. Some of the industry leaders have created a forum to evolve an industry standard for providing internet access to users over wireless access. This has led to the specification of the Wireless Access Protocol standards. WAP Model The WAP standards were defined keeping in consideration the constraints of the wireless networks including lower …showed first 75 words of 260 total…

…showed last 75 words of 260 total…model. The major components in the network are: Client Client could be a mobile terminal, a pager, a PDA or a similar small device. The client communicates with the server through a well-defined protocol. Gateway Gateway is a proxy agent for all the clients. It performs the translation of WAP content into compact encoded formats to reduce the data over the network. Origin Server Origin Server has the specific applications running for the WAP subscribers.