Research On WAP And WAP Gateway

Since the mid-90's in the 20th century, the rapid development of mobile communication technology and Internet technology has drastically changed people's ways of lives and they became two hot areas of the development of information technology. Internet technology makes wideranging information shared come true, and makes people acquire amounts of information conveniently and speedy. The development of mobile communication technology makes people communicate at any time and in any place. Combining these two technologies to connect vast information and advanced services into wireless devices, a new technology enabling people to access the Internet anytime anywhere一WAP technology has also been rapidly developed.WAP is the important step to mobile Internet. It became the international standard for expressing and disseminating wireless information over mobile phone and other wireless terminal by virtues of its deep industrial and technological background. Being the industrial standard, WAP is of significant importance to the development of wireless application program and wireless data services; Being the new technology of wireless application, WAP inherently has many unique designs of application for wireless environment. Therefore, it is necessary to study WAP protocol and its core technology as well as its applications in mobile Internet.WAP technology is an outstanding mobile Internet technology. The WAP Forum published an open, global wireless protocol specification based on existing Internet standards for all wireless networks. It provide Internet applications and services to people,such as weather, traffic, Constellation marriage, trains moment, news bulletins, mobile banking, E-mail,and online booking, positioning.WAP terminals, WAP Gateway and WAP Server are the three indispensable parts in the framework of WAP technology. WAP gateway is the core of their networks to connect mobile terminals and WAP Server. It is...