Mobile Agent based Network Access for Mobile Electronic Guidebooks

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Mobile Agent based Network Access for Mobile
Electronic Guidebooks

• Anwar M. Haneef
• Mobile Platforms and Service Lab
• Motorola Labs
• Aura Ganz
• Multimedia Networks Lab
• University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Agenda

• Overview
• Sample Scenario
• Features
• Architecture
• Current Status
• Conclusions

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Agenda

• Overview
• Sample Scenario
• Features
• Architecture
• Current Status
• Conclusions

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Overview

• Handouts given to museum visitors very useful
• Making these handouts interactive and adaptive
  with respect to the user significantly enhances
  the learning experience
• Prior art on this topic focused on retrofitted
  devices being loaned out to visitors

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Overview

• The MANAS solution aims to allow visitors to
  engage their own mobile computing devices as
  guidebooks
• Advantages
• Personalized devices
• Low maintenance overhead on museum proprietors

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Agenda

• Overview
• Sample Scenario
• Features
• Architecture
• Current Status
• Conclusions

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Sample Scenario

• Kathy and Amy enter a museum
• Application software specific to a particular
  museum need not be installed
• Museum-specific content pushed into the device

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Dynamic lookup of MANAS Service by client
framework
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Application Download

• Additional info regarding exhibit provided as a
  video
• The PDA does not have video rendering application
  pre-installed
• The appropriate applications are loaded and video
  can be rendered

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Content Adaptation

• Amys cousin Cathy comes by
• Amy points out an interesting picture to Cathy
• Cathys PDA has lower resolution display
• The architecture adapts content to suite her
  display

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Agenda

• Overview
• Sample Scenario
• Features
• Architecture
• Current Status
• Conclusions

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System Features

• Seamless Connectivity
• Networking Protocol and Platform Independent
  Middleware
• Customizable Software Services
• User Access Monitoring
• Lightweight Code
• Device-specific Content Adaptation

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Agenda

• Overview
• Sample Scenario
• Features
• Architecture
• Current Status
• Conclusions

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Network
Network Access Point/ Base Station
Mobile User
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Network
Network Access Point/ Base Station
Mobile User
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Network
Network Access Point/ Base Station
Mobile User
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Agenda

• Overview
• Sample Scenario
• Features
• Architecture
• Current Status
• Conclusions

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HTTP Proxy
HTTP Service
WWW
Network Access Point/ Base Station
Network
HTTP/Web Access
Web Browser Executing Mobile Agent Transport
Layer Network Layer Underlying Layers
Mobile User
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HTTP Proxy
HTTP Service
WWW
Network Access Point/ Base Station
Network
HTTP/Web Access
Web Browser Executing Mobile Agent Transport
Layer Network Layer Underlying Layers
Remote Image Transcoding Web Service
Mobile User
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Agenda

• Overview
• Sample Scenario
• Features
• Architecture
• Current Status
• Conclusions

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Conclusions

• The MANAS solution ideal for instant, hassle-free
  network access to mobile users
• Minimal user input
• Customized for mobile devices
• Alleviates overhead on museum curators

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Thank You !!!
http//dvd1.ecs.umass.edu/manas/