Softwarebasierte Lösungsansätze für mobilitätsbedingte Herausforderungen im mobilen Internet

Abstract

Mobility is obviously one of the main characteristics of the mobile Internet. Next to heterogeneity it is one of the root causes for challenges when mobile end devices are used. Mobility leads to specific characteristics of the usage of end devices which can be categorized as technical, social and physical. These characteristics create different challenges which have to be met if companies want to use the mobile Internet for their business processes. After isolating the effects of mobility and deriving challenges this paper shows solutions and describes four important of them in more detail: Mobil Device Management, Mobile Application Stores, Server-based Computing und Context adaptation.