Mobile Computing Based on GSM: The Mowgli Approach

Professor Martti Tienari
Department of Computer Science
University of Helsinki,
Finland

Abstract:

  Modern cellular telephone systems extend the usability of portable
personal computers enormously. A nomadic user can be given ubiquitous
access to remote information stores and computing services. However, the
behaviour of wireless links creates severe inconveniences within the
traditional data communication paradigm. 

  In our Mowgli project a software architecture for mastering the problems
created by a wireless communication environment has been conceived.  The
key idea in the Mowgli architecture is to place a mediator, a distributed
intelligent agent, between the mobile node and the wire-line network.