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Unit 1: Understanding WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)

Privacy: It means ensuring that eavesdropping of information by unauthorized persons is Notes
prevented.
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP): It is an application environment and group of
communication protocols for wireless devices modeled to activate manufacturer-vendor and
technology-independent access to the Internet and advanced telephony services.

Wireless Markup Language (WML): It is a lightweight markup language, analogous to HTML,
but optimized for use in hand-held mobile terminals.
WML Script: It is a lightweight scripting language, analogous to JavaScript.

1.5 Review Questions

1. Substantiate what is WAP? Explain the significance of WAP.
2. How WAP was developed? Explain the salient features of WAP.
3. In your point of view what is the future of WAP? What are some of the features supported
by the WAP software?
4. What are the benefits to be offered to content providers? How will the WAP benefit the
end-users?

5. Pervasive Computing is about making our lives simpler. Explain.
6. WAP bridges the gap between the mobile world and the Internet. Do you agree with this
statement? Explain with reasons to support your answer.

7. Handset manufacturers can develop high volume, low cost handsets for all carriers. Explain.
8. WAP sessions cope with intermittent coverage and can operate over a wide variety of
wireless transports. Discuss.

9. As WAP is based on a scalable layered architecture, each layer can develop independently
of the others. Explain.
10. The data returned from the Web Server is translated by the WAP gateway. What have you
understood from this statement? Explain in detail.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Pervasive 2. standards-based
3. transport 4. gateways

5. WAP 6. infrastructure
7. Extensible Markup Language (XML) 8. bandwidth
9. graphic screen 10. minimize
11. External 12. Protocol

13. Application 14. Internet
15. fixed-line

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