| Wireless devices like cell phones are popular in this day and age because they provide instant gratification and convenient services to users without restricting them to a particular place and time. Mobile devices support features like instant messaging, calendar services, and Web browsing. There is a growing need for Web access from mobile devices since numerous wireless applications require data from the Internet. Challenges arise when developing software for wireless devices, due to device constraints such as small screen sizes, limited memory, unreliable wireless connections and low processing power.; The goal of this research is to design a test-bed for investigating different caching and prefetching schemes for mobile devices that utilize the Java(TM) 2 Micro Edition platform (J2ME(TM)); thereby opening up a fresh perspective for providing Web access solutions for small, wireless devices. |
