Tables of Contents for Pervasive Computing

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Tables of Contents for Pervasive Computing

Chapter/Section Title

Page #

Page Count

Foreword

ix

Preface

xii

Acknowledgements

xviii

About the authors

xix

Trademarks

xxii

Part I Technologies

1

216

Past, present, future

3

19

The vine and fig tree dream

3

3

Pervasive computing

6

9

The pervasive computing market

15

3

m-Business

18

1

Conclusions and challenges

19

1

The future

20

2

References

21

1

Application examples

22

13

Retail

22

2

Airline check-in and booking

24

2

Sales force automation

26

1

Healthcare

27

1

Tracking

28

1

Car information systems

29

2

Email access via WAP and voice

31

4

References

33

2

Device technology

35

49

Hardware

35

5

Human-machine interfaces

40

10

Biometrics

50

2

Operating systems

52

19

Java for pervasive devices

71

10

Outlook

81

3

References

82

1

Further reading

83

1

Device connectivity

84

43

Protocols

84

25

Security

109

11

Device management

120

7

References

125

1

Further reading

126

1

Web application concepts

127

19

History of the World Wide Web

127

1

World Wide Web architecture

128

2

Protocols

130

3

Transcoding

133

2

Client authentication via the Internet

135

11

References

144

1

Further reading

145

1

WAP and beyond

146

33

Introduction

146

1

Components of the WAP architecture

147

3

WAP infrastructure

150

5

WAP security issues

155

2

Wireless Markup Language

157

9

WAP push

166

1

Products

167

6

i-Mode

173

1

Outlook

174

5

References

177

1

Further reading

178

1

Voice technology

179

15

Basics of speech recognition

180

3

Voice standards

183

5

Speech applications

188

1

Speech and pervasive computing

189

3

Security

192

2

References

192

2

Personal digital assistants

194

23

History

194

1

Device categories

195

2

Personal digital assistant operating systems

197

2

Device characteristics

199

1

Software components

200

3

Standards

203

4

Mobile applications

207

3

Personal digital assistant browsers

210

7

References

214

1

Conclusion

215

2

Part II Architectures

217

180

Server-side programming in Java

219

37

Java 2 Enterprise Edition: overview

219

4

Servlets

223

1

Enterprise Java Beans

224

5

Java Server pages

229

3

Extensible Markup Language

232

14

Web services

246

7

Model-view-controller pattern

253

1

Conclusion

254

2

References

255

1

Further reading

255

1

Pervasive Web application architecture

256

20

Background

256

1

Scalability and availability

257

2

Development of pervasive computing Web applications

259

1

Pervasive application architecture

260

15

Conclusion

275

1

References

275

1

Example application

276

30

Introduction

276

1

User interface overview

277

2

Architecture

279

1

Implementation

280

25

Summary

305

1

Access from PCs

306

28

Smart-card-based authentication via the Internet

306

13

Ordering goods

319

14

Conclusion

333

1

References

333

1

Access via WAP

334

14

WAP functionality

334

3

Implementation

337

10

Conclusion

347

1

Access from personal digital assistants

348

31

Extending the example application to personal digital assistants

348

1

Implementation for synchronized devices

348

8

Implementation for intermittently connected devices

356

14

Implementation for connected devices

370

6

Comparison

376

3

References

378

1

Access via voice

379

18

Extending the example application to voice access

379

7

Implementation

386

8

Conclusion

394

3

Conclusion

395

2

Appendix: Frequently used abbreviations

397

8

Index

405