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The challenges of mobile computing
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The technical challenges that mobile computing must surmount to achieve its potential are hardly trivial. Some of the challenges in designing software for mobile computing systems are quite different from those involved in the design of software for today's stationary networked systems. The authors focus on the issues pertinent to software designers without delving into the lower level details of the hardware realization of mobile computers. They look at some promising approaches under investigation and also consider their limitations. The many issues to be dealt with stem from three essential properties of mobile computing: communication, mobility, and portability. Of course, special-purpose systems may avoid some design pressures by doing without certain desirable properties. For instance portability would be less of a concern for mobile computers installed in the dashboards of cars than with hand-held mobile computers. However, the authors concentrate on the goal of large-scale, hand-held mobile computing as a way to reveal a wide assortment of issues.>
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- Authors
- Forman, G. H., & Zahorjan, J.
- Venue
- Computer
- Published
- 1994-04
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 38-47
- ISSN
- 0018-9162 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2116436884
- Cited by
- 880
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 81.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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