In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science
Indranil Bandopadhyay
will defend his thesis
Architecture and Prototype of a Wireless Alert
System
Abstract
WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) is a protocol for accessing information
from the mobile devices and WML is the Wireless Markup Language to develop a
wireless application. These are
analogous to the HTTP and HTML of the Internet world. Wireless applications provide mobility to the user and thus
it is extremely useful because it can be accessed from anywhere. Another important feature of wireless
applications is the capability to generate Push messages based on certain
events without user interaction.
This Push feature is a new addition to the WAP 1.2 specification of the
WAP forum and this is indeed a very powerful arsenal for delivering content to
the user without the user having to specifically go and retrieve it.
This thesis is aimed at the architecture and prototype of a wireless alert system that can be easily applied in everyday life. The architecture for a wireless alert system along with the performance and functionality issues that were addressed is presented. The prototype application presented here is a stock browsing application with wide scale support for creating and managing portfolio of stocks. The user can set a threshold value for each stock in the portfolio. The system continuously monitors the stock prices and anytime the price goes below the threshold, an alert message is generated to the mobile browser.
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2002
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: 550-PGH
Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam