Adapting to network and client variability via on-demand dynamic distillation
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Experiences with network-based user agents for mobile applications
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on protocols and software paradigms of mobile networks
Multimedia Web services for mobile clients using quality aware transcoding
WOWMOM '99 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile multimedia
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
Programming and Deploying Java Mobile Agents Aglets
The Mobile People Architecture
The Mobile People Architecture
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As network technology is advancing at a rapid rate, clients can access information from the Internet using a variety of devices and via different types of networks. As the Internet is heterogeneous in nature, and with such diversities in devices, a client can use to access the Internet; it is impossible for a server on the Internet to contain information for all different types of clients. A possible solution to this problem is to use proxies to alter the content and to provide network enhancements to suit client's individual requirements. The current proxy-based solutions rely on a dedicated proxy server to provide the proxy functionality, but inevitably, this approach will fail if the proxy server does not have the necessary proxy functions, as a proxy server cannot obtain them from another source. We believe that it will be possible to overcome the above limitations of proxy-based solutions by making the proxies transportable and active, i.e. the use of proxy agents to perform the proxy functions. In this paper, we present the architecture of such a proxy agent system, and the implementation of a prototype to evaluate its viability.