A framework for integrated management of mobile-stations over-the-air

Mobile devices are in the process of evolution. The capabilities that 3G promises open up a number of new possibilities for mobile communications. Future mobile devices will be communication devices with computational capabilities supporting a wide variety of applications that require high data rates, capacity and multimedia capabilities. To support high quality services and improve the satisfaction of the users, over-the-air management of parameters and resources in a mobile station (MS) would be useful. There are emerging standards and technologies to bring manageability to a mobile hand-held device. This paper discusses the issues in over-the-air management and introduces a framework for over the air management of CDMA MSs leveraging the wireless application protocol (WAP).