Client and Server Mobility for WEB Applications

: As mobile devices and broadband networks are widely available, it is desirable to provide mobility for web services. A web service is mobile in the sense that, without interrupting the services, users are allowed to switch the browsing devices or the service providing servers could be changed as the users move. The mobility of users' browsing devices and the change of service providing servers are called client mobility and server mobility, respectively. This paper develops an innovative approach, which does not require any third-party agents, for realizing client mobility and server mobility. Hence, the approach introduces less overhead and provides better backward compatibility for existing services. Only a plug-in module for the web browsing devices is needed to provide the client and server mobility services. The approach has been demonstrated using one of the popular web clients, Konqueror, and one of the popular web servers, Apache.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IIWAS
• Authors: Yi-Hua Tsai, Jian-Jia Chen, Tei-Wei Kuo, Chi-Sheng Shih
• Keywords: Browsing Devices, IIWAS 2004, IIWAS 2007, Server Mobility, Service Providing Servers