A system-platform for mobile computing applications

Systems with both mobile and stationary computers are of increasing importance. Mobile users can access information anywhere and anytime. Basic components needed for mobile computing are smart portable computers and wireless communication networks. Major problems due to mobility and the specific characteristics of portable computers and wireless communications are dynamic configuration, moving resources, reachability, data and function consistency. A complete system architecture to enable mobile computing, called MOBI-DICK, is presented. This system can be used as a programming platform to hide the specifics of mobile computing from the application programmer.