wap

Wireless application protocols

 introduction
• Represents several protocol to transmit
data to mobile user.
• Main goal(function) is to enable the mobile
user or pd user to access the internet
• Represent set of protocols that defines
the manner by which the content can be
delivered to small screen display device
via a wireless communication
 function
• Substancial portion of the phone sold by 2004
and will have multimedia capability
• These multimedia capabilities include the ability
to retrieve e-mail and push and pull information
of this existing new applications.
• Wap now a global standard makes possible the
delivery of an unlimited renge of mobile-added
services to subscribes independent of their
network,bearer and terminal.
 history
• The origin of wap can be traced to 1995 by
erricsson.this european cellulart telephone
manufacturer began work on protocol reffered as
intelligent terminal transfer protocol(ittp)
• This ittp was being deloped as a mechanism to
facilitate the addition of services to mobile
telephone platforms.
• 1st series of standards reffered as wap 1.1 were
released in the spring of the year 2000
 Basic components

• Wireless markup languages is used by

wap for create the wap pages and is very
similar to html
• This wml is defined by wap forum which is
an organization whose members prootes
wireless standards
 advantages
• Unlike wired services wireless devices is always
with the user and always on.
• Faster evolution: the average purchase cycle for
wireless devices is mere 18 months compared to 24
to 36 months for pcs allowing services provides to
evalute user to more technology advances
equipments in less time.
• Growth in band width:the pipeline is growing as
terchnologies such as general packet radio
service(GPRS) code division multiple
access(CDMA) and universal mobile telephone
service(UMTS) are rolled out.
• The added bandwidth of these new third generation
wireless technologies will enable the new
 Types of servers
• Origin: wap delivers the content first from the
origin server and given resources resides on
these server.
• E.g.in the image above,the origin server is
providing static content,such as html and
dynamic content in the form of cgi programs.
• Gateway: the function of gateway is to perform
conversion from wap stack to the transmission
control protocol/internet protocol(tcp/ip)
• proxy