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Information on WAP

The WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) aims to bring Internet content and advanced data services to handheld wireless terminals (such as a personal digital assistant (PDA)), including those with limited:

  • predictablility of availability,
  • access bandwidth,
  • memory,
  • battery capacity,
  • computational capability,
  • input devices, and
  • display capability.

    •      Like Internet-based services, the wireless application protocol (WAP) is based on a client-server model. The WAP (Wireless Application Protocol shares many standards with conventional internet applications, but provides different standards where they are required to support handheld wireless terminals.
         The WAP application environment includes:
  • a standard naming model, based on URLs;
  • content typing, where types are consistent with WWW typing;
  • standard content formats;
  • standard protocols.

    •      Efficiency of protocols over low-capacity wireless links is a key WAP design driver.


    Other topics in our resources on GSM related to WAP include: 
     
  • wireless application environment
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  • WML (Wireless Markup Language)

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