Web Intelligent Query - Disconnected Web Browsing Using Cooperative Techniques

Mobile computers operate in constantly changing network environments. It is possible for a mobile computer to become temporarily "disconnected" from a network when it changes base stations or goes out of range of a base station. A mobile host may also "doze off" to preserve battery power. If at the time it "goes down", a mobile computer is involved in a transaction process with another computer (mobile or static), it should be able to tolerate the "fault" of temporary disconnection. This work focuses on disconnected web browsing from a mobile host. The current model of web browsing is inherently sequential, and wasteful of bandwidth. This paper investigates an efficient model for browsing and presents a preliminary implementation. 1.0 Introduction Recent years have seen a significant increase in interest generated by mobile computing. Users are increasingly looking for mobile aware applications[2][3]. With the advent of the World Wide Web[13], browsing (surfing) the web is becoming an..