White Papers
White papers are organized in
two ways: first by subject and then by vendors.
White Papers -
Mobile Computing - Business Issues
White Paper - Evolution of
Future Wireless and Mobile Architectures
White Papers - 3G Wireless
Network Related Topics,
White Papers - Wireless LANs -
802.11b, 802.11a, etc.
- Wireless LAN White Papers by Jim Geier - a well-known
consultant, author and speaker - Chair of IEEE Wireless LAN implementation, are available
from his site. Click here.
- Spread Spectrum: Frequency Hopping vs. Direct Sequence
- Overview of the IEEE 802.11 Standard
- Benefits of the IEEE 802.11 Standard
- Wireless Network Middleware
- Future of the IEEE 802.11 Standard
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WiFi
(802.11b and 802.11g in 2.4 GHz) and 802.11a (in 5 GHz band)
WLAN - Competing or Complementary - a
white paper published by Mobilian Corporation. Key
point the paper emphasizes through technical discussion is
complimentary nature of the two technologies, rather than
competitive role of two technologies.
White Papers - WAP Related
White Papers - M-Commerce Related
- "Seizing
the M-Commerce Opportunity" - From Mobilocity.Net - a
consulting company providing high-level strategies in mobile commerce. The
paper describes uniqueness of challenges and opportunities in mobile
commerce.
- "Mobile
Financial Services" - From MobiloCity.Net - a
consulting company providing high-level strategies in mobile commerce.
- Localize
or Perish - a white paper from Cellmania. The winning mobile commerce strategies for the future
will be about building wireless Internet and Web applications that are location-centric, where location will be the key notion through which
all content will be presented and promoted to the customer.
White Papers - Mobile Computing
Middleware Related
White Papers - Data
Synchronization and Mobile Management
White Papers - Mobile Device
Related Ruggedization
White Papers - M-Commerce
Related
- AlterEgo's Whitepaper on
"Adapting Intranet Applications for Handheld devices and wireless
networks", click
here. (PDF file)
White Papers - Application
Related
White Papers - Application
Development Related
White Papers - Wireless Traffic
Optimization
White Papers Provided
by Vendors:
IBM White Papers - offers on
"pervasive computing" section of its website
several white papers and primers on wireless and mobile computing. We are
listing several of these white papers, courtesy of IBM pervasive
computing website. Click here for
a more complete list
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2.5G
and 3G networks
3G is generating a lot of excitement in the
telecommunications, Information Technology (IT) and
Internet industries. This powerful new infrastructure
will allow ubiquitous, always-on, high-speed access to
voice, data, and multimedia services. |
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A
security strategy for mobile e-business
Managing risk, protecting privacy and securing trust
in the wireless revolution. |
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Pervasive
or invasive - managing the customer on the move
How mobile e-business will influence future approaches
to customer relationship management. |
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Transforming
the appliance industry
This paper describes how pervasive networking is
transforming white goods into intelligent devices,
providing their manufacturers with an opportunity to
enhance their customer relationships, services and
revenue streams. |
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RFID
Tags - an intelligent bar code replacement
Describes how the use of Radio Frequency ID (RFID)
wireless significantly enhances supply chain process
and delivers customer service improvements. |
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Wireless
payments - money out of thin air?
Wireless payment, the ability to initiate and/or
confirm a payment transaction from a wireless device,
is the key element of wireless commerce. |
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The
Future of Wireless Banking
Today's banking and trading institutions realize they
must move and move quickly to capitalize on new
business opportunities in wireless banking and
trading. Resistance to the implementation of wireless
banking can lead to major losses at the business and
market share levels. |
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IBM
Everyplace Wireless Gateway
"This article explains how to write an
application to push a message to a variety of
pervasive devices by specifying different address
types. It also discusses issues of security and
scalability, and lists the supported network
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Mobile
Office, the next breakthrough in professional
productivity gains
To date, great interest and momentum in wireless
technology have been seen in the Business to Consumer
(B2C) applications, however many of the business
benefits are expected to be realized in the Business
to Employee (B2E) environment. |
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Wireless world awaits: Nine moves that mobilize
e-business
Forward-thinking enterprises have already started
shifting their e-businesses in a wireless direction.
Experience with these early adopters shows nine
recurring themes. |
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Wireless
school
Technology has become an educational necessity - a
necessity that can finally be accessible by many
school districts throughout the country. |
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Extending
the reach of your applications
WebSphere Everyplace Suite is an environment for
building services and applications for pervasive
computing devices. |
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Palm®
enterprise requirements for handheld computing
Innovative organizations looking to gain competitive
advantage through mobile computing choose solutions
based on the Palm OS®. |
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Palm®
handheld computing optimizes customer relationship
management
Handhelds provide instant access from any location to
the corporation's backbone of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP)
applications. |
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Mobile
Financial Services
The world agrees on one thing: The Internet is the
platform on which enterprises of all kinds can
re-invent themselves. |
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Mobile
Computing in the Route Sales Marketplace
This document is intended to assist organizations
considering the automation of part or all of their
route sales processes. |
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BluetoothTM
Applications in Pervasive Computing
The emergence of information appliances and new types
of connectivity is spurring a new form of networking:
unmanaged, dynamic networks of devices, especially
mobile devices, that spontaneously and unpredictably
join and leave the network. |
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IBM
Application Framework for e-business
The IBM Application Framework for e-business is
designed to enable businesses, large and small, to
build and deploy Web-based applications quickly and
easily. |
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IBM
Mobile Connect and Security
Customers starting on the path to handheld device
connectivity will be confronted by the issues of
device security, network security, user authentication
and data encryption. |
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Discovering
devices and services for home networking
The emergence of information appliances and new types
of connectivity is spurring a new form of networking:
unmanaged, dynamic networks of consumer devices that
spontaneously and unpredictably join and leave the
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Extending
SAP systems to pervasive computing devices
Only recently has the convergence of new internet and
mobile technologies made it practical to extend some
applications to the mobile user. |
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Oracle White Papers - Oracle has ventured
into mobile computing from a number of perspectives - offering Oracle Mobile Agent
application gateway for wireless applications, Oracle lite as a DBMS platform for mobile
devices including PDAs and WinCE compatible devices, data replication/synchronization
software and more recently (1999 circa) offering a mobile portal called Project Panama.
Click here for a white paper describing Oracle's
Project Panama - a mobile portal. Project Panama delivers dynamic Web content to users
of mobile devices, including GSM smart-phones, Windows CE devices and Palm Pilots.
Go
to white paper section of Oracle's website.
Sybase
iAnywhere - click here for
iAnywhere's mobile solution & technology white papers.
Broadbeam Corporation
(formerly
Nettech - a wireless middleware
and optimized wireless API supplier) has a number of white papers. Click on
the appropriate white papers. MobileInfo.Com recommends these white papers for background reading of basic
concepts in application development considerations in wireless
networks.
Cingular
(formerly BellSouth) has some technical
white papers on Mobitex technology and BellSouth network. Click here for these
articles.
Ericsson
has a number of white papers on its website, including a glossy
publication (an advertising feature) on third generation wireless networks. "It is a
good reading on Ericsson's view of third generation wireless networks, especially
w-CDMA. Please note that Ericsson has acquired certain intellectual property from
Qualcomm in an agreement signed in 1999". - Editor. Click here to
access Ericsson's site for white papers.
Note: Vendors and independent
professionals may submit white papers for review by MOBILEINFO and inclusion on
this site. Our guidelines state that only those white papers that
enunciate concepts, use product examples to illustrate these concepts
and are not heavily marketing oriented will be published by
MobileInfo. Acknowledgements will be provided for these type of white
papers. Vendors may include their own product-specific white
papers for fee on their own home pages and elsewhere on our website.
See examples of vendor-sponsored white papers on Synchrologic's
home page on our website.
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