A Semantic Caching Service for Wireless Network Centric Environments

Florida International University, Miami FL

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Abstract

The rapid development of wireless communications technologies and their impact on everyday life has greatly increased over the last couple of years. But, the traditional client/server architecture, where the client relies completely on the server for information, is not useful in the wireless environment, as the server is often not reachable because it is not connected. The proposal focuses on the development of wireless communications technologies and plans to design, develop and implement a "client/proxy/server system" in which a client-side proxy assumes the role of a local server during the disconnections. Preliminary work shows that the approach has great potential to improve data access, computation and service. The targeted application areas include distance learning, fast mobile Internet as well as 3rd and 4th generation wireless cellular networks.