Next generation wireless applications : creating mobile applications in a Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 world / Paul Golding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golding, Paul, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wireless communication systems.

Mobile communication systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (627 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley & Sons, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Cuts through the hype! Golding's compelling style offers visionary, but practical insights. A "must have" reference treatment for all practitioners in the mobile innovation space." - Jag Minhas Second edition of the best-selling guide to wireless applications: fully revised, updated and with brand new material! In next generation Wireless Applications, Second Edition, the author establishes a picture of the entire mobile application ecosystem, and explains how it all fits together. This edition builds upon the successes of the first edition by offering an up-to-date holistic guide to mobile application development, including an assessment of the applicability of new mobile applications, and an exploration into the developments in a number of areas such as Web 2.0, 3G, Mobile TV, J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) and many more. Next Generation Wireless Applications will prove essential reading for professionals in mobile operator and mobile application developing companies, web developers, and developer community mangers. Media companies, general managers, business analysts, students, business consultants, and Java developers will also find this book captivating. "If you want to understand the future of mobile applications and services, their potential impact and the growth opportunities, this is the perfect starting point." - Martin Smith Key Features include: . New introductory chapters on trends in mobile application, and on becoming an operator. . Two new chapters on Mobile 2.0 and IMS and Mobilising Media and TV. . Extra material on convergence, Web 2.0 AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), HSDPA ad MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service), WiMAX and WiFi. . Best practice on how to present to, sell to and work with operators. . More insights, anecdotes and sidebars reflecting the author's extensive experience in the industry. For further information visit <a href="http://www.paulgolding.com/">http://www.paulgolding.com</a>.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Preface

Abbreviations and Acronyms

1 Prelude / The Next Generation Experience

1.1 What is 'Next Generation' Anyhow?

1.2 The Mobile Mindset

1.3 The Future's Bright, the Future's Ubiquity

1.4 Our Multitasking Mobile Future

2 Introduction

2.1 What Does 'Next Generation' Mean?

2.2 What is a 'Wireless Application'?

2.3 A Concentric Networks Approach

2.3.1 Social Network

2.3.2 Device Network

2.3.3 Radio Frequency (RF / Wireless) Network

2.3.4 Internet Protocol (IP) Network

2.3.5 Content Network

2.4 Application Topologies

2.5 Physical Network Elements

3 Becoming an Operator 2.0

3.1 Introduction

3.2 What Applications Can I Sell?

3.3 Where Does the Money Come From?

3.4 Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) Retailing

3.4.1 Application Discovery

3.4.2 Application Distribution

3.4.3 Application Access. /

3.4.4 Charging Mechanism

3.5 Operator Retailing

3.6 Selling to Operators

3.6.1 Top Ten Selling Tips

3.6.2 Selling Apps to Operators / Operator Perspective

3.7 Which Applications Should an Operator Deploy?

3.7.1 The Market Challenges

3.7.2 The User-Experience Focus

3.8 Interpreting User-Experience Trends into Applications

3.9 Wider Digital Trends Including Web 2.0

3.9.1 Web 2.0 and Mobile Web 2.0

3.9.2 Mobile Web 2.0 or Mobile 2.0?

3.9.3 Content Trends

3.10 Harnessing the Trends

3.11 Conclusion

4 Introduction to Mobile Service Architectures and Paradigms

4.1 Possible Application Paradigms for Mobile Services

4.2 Modes of Mobile Interaction

4.3 Mapping the Interaction to the Network Model

4.4 Mobile Interaction in the Mobile Ecosystem

4.4.1 Social Network

4.4.2 Device Network

4.4.3 RF Network

4.4.4 IP Network

4.4.5 Content Network

4.4.6 Machine Network

4.5 Modes of Communication Across the Network Layers

4.5.1 Human-to-Human Interaction (H2H)

4.5.2 Human-to-Content Interaction (H2C)

4.5.3 Human-to-Machine Interaction (H2M).

4.5.4 Machine-to-Machine Interaction (M2M)

4.6 Operator Challenges

4.7 The Web 2.0 Challenge

5 P-Centric Mobile Ecosystem and Web 2.0

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Internet and Web 2.0

5.3 The Challenges of Liberating Data

5.3.1 Challenge 1: Making Database Information Human-readable

5.3.2 Challenge 2: Adding Visual Formatting to the Database Information

5.3.3 Challenge 3: The Need for a Protocol

5.3.4 Challenge 4: The Need for a Delivery Mechanism

5.4 Did We Need HTTP and HTML?

5.5 Overcoming Web Limitations with Web 2.0's AJAX, Widgets and Other Goodies. /

5.6 Sidestepping the Web with P2P Interaction

5.7 Going Beyond Publishing with Web Services

5.8 Semantic Web

5.9 XML Glue

5.10 Real-Time Services

5.10.1 Multimedia Streaming

5.10.2 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

6 Client / Server Platforms for Mobile Services

6.1 The Greater Challenges

6.2 The Specific Challenges

6.3 Service Delivery Platforms

6.4 Software Services Technologies

6.4.1 Example CS Design Issues

6.5 Introducing J2EE / The 'Dirty Stuff' Done For Us!

6.6 Why All the Fuss About J2EE?

6.6.1 The Challenges of Integration

6.7 Handling SIP with Java

7 HTTP, WAP, AJAX, P2P and IM Protocols

7.1 The Rise of the Web

7.2 How HTTP and HTML works

7.3 Important Detail is in the HTTP Headers

7.4 The Challenges of Using HTTP Over a Wireless Link

7.5 WAP Data Transmission Protocols

7.5.1 Protocol Stack Paradigm

7.5.2 The WAP Stack

7.5.3 Wireless-Profiled TCP

7.5.4 Wireless-Profiled HTTP (W-HTTP)

7.6 Wireless Protocols / WTP and WSP

7.6.1 Introduction

7.6.2 Wireless Transport Protocol (WTP)

7.6.3 Concatenation and Segmentation

7.6.4 Segmentation and Reassembly in Action

7.6.5 Wireless Session Protocol (WSP)

7.6.6 WAP Push

7.7 AJAX

7.8 Peer-to-Peer (P2P)

7.8.1 Defining P2P

7.8.2 Some P2P Concepts

7.8.3 JXTA

7.9 Instant Messaging (IM) Protocols

7.9.1 SIP/SIMPLE

7.9.2 XMPP.

7.9.3 IMPS

7.9.4 IM Interoperability. /

7.9.5 Protocol Acceptance (Support)

8 J2EE Presentation Layer

8.1 Separating Presentation from Business Logic

8.1.1 Servlets and JSPs / 'HTTP Programs'

8.1.2 Comparing Servlets with JSPs

8.2 Markup Languages for Mobile Devices

8.2.1 The HTML Foundation

8.2.2 The Mobile Evolution (WML)

8.3 Full Circle / WML 'Becomes' XHTML

8.3.1 XHTML is Modular

8.3.2 XHTML Basic

8.3.3 XHTML-MP (Mobile Profile) / The Final Frontier

8.3.4 Using XHTML-MP

8.3.5 Browser-specific Enhancements to XHTML-MP

8.3.6 Guidelines for Mobile Webpage Authoring

8.4 Managing Different Devices

8.5 Building Device-Independent Applications

8.5.1 Detecting and Capturing Device or Browser Information

8.5.2 Conveying CC/PP Information

8.5.3 Dynamic Page Generation Schemes

8.6 Managing Sessions

8.6.1 Cookies to the Rescue

8.7 MMS and SMIL

9 Using J2EE for Mobile Services

9.1 Technologies Underpinning J2EE

9.1.1 Containers / The J2EE 'Glue'

9.1.2 RMI / The EJB 'Glue'

9.1.3 Stubs and Skeletons / The Inner Workings of RMI

9.2 Managing Security

9.2.1 Securely Connecting the User

9.2.2 HTTP Authentication / Basic

9.2.3 HTTP Authentication / Digest

9.3 Encrypting the HTTP Link

9.3.1 Public Key Cryptography

9.3.2 Using PKC to Secure Web Connections

9.4 Applying SSL to Wireless

9.5 End-to-End Encryption in a Mobile Network

10 Mobile Devices

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Interface Elements

10.2.1 Tactile Interface Elements

10.2.2 Aural Interface Elements

10.2.3 Vocal Interface Elements

10.2.4 Visual Interface Elements

10.3 Interface Layer

10.3.1 Interfacing Via the Network Layer

10.4 Service Layer

10.5 Network Layer

10.6 Role of DSP in Digital Wireless Devices

10.6.1 Radio Frequency (RF)

10.6.2 Analog Baseband

10.6.3 Digital Baseband

10.6.4 Digital Signal Processor (DSP)

10.6.5 Summary

10.7 Suggesting a Generic Device Architecture.

10.7.1 Core Processor and Operating System

10.7.2 Digital Signal Processor

10.7.3 Application Loader

10.7.4 Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

10.8 Moving Towards a Commercial Mobile Platform

10.8.1 Communications Utilities

10.8.2 Personal Information Management (PIM) Utilities

11 Mobile Application Paradigms

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Application Topologies

11.3 Embedded Applications

11.3.1 What Do We Need to Develop an Embedded Application?

11.3.2 C and C++ Are Not the Only Choices

11.3.3 'Native' Java Support

11.4 Embedded Development Tools

11.4.1 Design

11.4.2 Configuring the IDE/Program Editing/Compilation and Build

11.4.3 Testing and Debugging with a Simulator

11.4.4 Testing on the Target Device

11.4.5 Conducting Usability Tests

11.4.6 Pilot Trials and Deployment

11.5 Browser-based Applications

11.5.1 Limited Local Processing

11.5.2 Requires an Available Network Connection (Caching)

11.5.3 User Interface Constraints

11.6 Java Platform Applications

11.7 The Java Ethos / a Tale of Two Parts

11.8 Java 2 Micro Edition / 'Wireless Java'

11.9 Using MIDP to Develop Mobile Applications

11.10 What Does MIDP 2.0 Offer?

11.10.1 Application Packaging and Delivery

11.10.2 API Summary

11.10.3 User Interface APIs

11.10.4 Networking API

11.10.5 Securing the APIs

11.10.6 Push Mechanism

11.11 MIDP OTA Download Mechanism

11.12 What Does MIDP 3.0 Offer?

11.13 On-Device Portals

11.13.1 Introduction

11.13.2 ODPs

11.13.3 Alternative Application Paradigms / Opera Platform

12 The RF Network

12.1 The Essence of Cellular Networks

12.1.1 RF Network Convergence

12.2 The Radio Part

12.2.1 Basic RF

12.2.2 Building an RF Network

12.2.3 Increasing Capacity Using TDMA

12.2.4 Increasing Capacity Using CDMA

12.3 The Harsher Reality of Cellular Systems

12.3.1 Data-Rate Variation

12.4 Mobile Broadband Networks

12.4.1 HSPA

12.4.2 WiMAX.

12.5 Techniques for Adaptation

12.6 Cellular Network Operation

12.6.1 Getting Data In and Out

12.6.2 Gateway GPRS Service Node

12.7 Accessing Network Assets

12.7.1 J2EE Revisited

12.7.2 Service Delivery Platforms Based on Web Services

12.7.3 Standards for the Service Layer APIs / Parlay/OSA

12.8 Parlay X (Parlay Web Services)

12.8.1 What Does a Parlay X Message Look Like?

13 Mobile Location Services

13.1 'I've Just Run Someone Over'

13.2 'Where Am I?'

13.3 Message Handling Using J2EE

13.4 Accuracy of Location-Based Services (LBS)

13.5 Interfacing LBS Applications with the Cellular Network

13.6 Integrating LBS Applications

13.7 Multimedia Messaging (MM)

13.7.1 Composing MMS Messages

13.8 Getting in the Zone with Splash (Spatial) Messaging

13.8.1 Introduction

13.8.2 Connectedness of Things

13.8.3 Making a Splash

13.8.4 Splash-Messaging Summary

14 Mobile 2.0 and IMS

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Mobile Transformation

14.3 IMS / What is it Really?

14.4 Why is IMS Important?

14.5 Start Here: Internet Telephony, or VoIP

14.6 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

14.6.1 Making the Connection

14.6.2 The CSCF Triad

14.6.3 Media Support

14.6.4 Media Out of IMS Control

14.6.5 Telephony Gateway Support

14.6.6 More Than Just SIP

14.7 The Promise of a Common Services Environment

14.7.1 Seamless Mobility and Convergence

14.8 IMS as a Convergence Catalyst

14.8.1 Mobile Roots, Fixed Branches

14.8.2 Spanning the Mobile-fixed Divide / TISPAN

14.8.3 A Winding Path to Convergence

14.9 End Here: Beyond VoIP - Application Servers

14.10 IMS Service Concept

14.11 Service Examples

14.11.1 Multimodal Chat

14.11.2 Push-To-Taxi

14.11.3 Avatar Chat

14.12 The Universal Client and Web 2.0

14.13 Conclusion

15 Mobilising Media and TV

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Why 'Experience'?

15.3 Unique Mobilisation Characteristics

15.3.1 Pervasiveness / Always On.

15.3.2 Personalising the Experience

15.3.3 Merchandising / Paying is a Familiar Experience

15.4 The Content Experience

15.5 Mobilisation Options

15.5.1 Client Versus Clientless: to WAP or Not to WAP

15.5.2 On-Device Portals: Using Clients to Engage the User

15.5.3 Offering Video Services

15.6 Mobile TV

15.6.1 Unicast (and Multicast) TV and Video

15.6.2 Broadcast TV and Video

15.7 Mobile TV is Not TV on the Mobile

15.7.1 Interactivity

15.7.2 Made-for-Mobile Production

15.7.3 Time and Place Shifted Viewing

15.7.4 TV-Centric Convergence

15.8 Commercial Considerations

15.9 Monetisation

15.9.1 Subscription Models

15.9.2 Advertising Models

Index.

Notes:

Description based on PDF viewed 10/24/2017.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612350023

9781282350021

1282350021

9780470987735

0470987731

9780470987728

0470987723

OCLC:

232611435