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Mobile OS and Application Protocols

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The aim of this chapter to provide the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the softwares and the protocols that define a mobile application framework. This framework depends on the mobile OS support and the services offered by a set of generic mobile application protocols. The design and capabilities of a mobile OS is different from a OS for desktop computers. OS issues are just too many. To keep the content meaningful, the discussion on mobile OS has been organized around the basic features, focusing on the minimality and the essential components related to four different mobile OSes, namely, J2ME, Symbian, Android and iOS. The application protocols are responsible for maintaining internet connectivity when a mobile device moves from one place to another. In this chapter, three mobile application protocols, namely, Mobile IP, Mobile Shell (mosh), and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), have been described. Mobile IP is a modification of wireline IP at Internet level which allows the mobile users to communicate independent of the point of network attachment. Mosh is a terminal emulation protocol for mobile hand held systems. It uses State Synchronization Protocol (SSP) and speculative display rendering mechanism to synchronize the screen states at both the client and the server. In essence, Mosh uses UDP connection and avoids character-wise echoing mechanism for synching display in the client terminal with the server. WAP defines a set of standards for developing mobile utility services over wireless networks.

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Ghosh, R.K. (2017). Mobile OS and Application Protocols. In: Wireless Networking and Mobile Data Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3941-6_8

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