Mobile agents for wireless computing: The convergence of wireless computational models with mobile-agent technologies

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 517-528

  Spyrou, Constantinos ^a   Samaras, George ^a   Pitoura, Evaggelia ^b   Evripidou, Paraskevas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Client server; Mobile agents; Mobile architectures; Mobile computing; Software models; Wireless architectures; Wireless web

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MOBILE AGENTS; MOBILE ARCHITECTURES; SOFTWARE MODELS; WIRELESS ARCHITECTURES; WIRELESS WEBS;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 3142692860     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MONE.0000034705.10830.b7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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