Building the Intelligent Wireless Web

by Alesso, H. Peter; Smith, Craig F.

• ISBN13: 9780201730630
• ISBN10: 0201730634
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Summary

The Web is becoming smarter. Tomorrow's Intelligent Web won't just pass raw information between people through search engines and browsers: it will become a packager of knowledge. It will recognize our speech. And it will lose its dependence on wires, becoming ever more useful as it delivers knowledge to anyone, anytime, anywhere. While progress is being made in wireless mobile devices, speech recognition, and intelligent software, the Intelligent Wireless Web will require the integration of all these advances, and more. This book reveals the "big picture," showing how all these disparate technologies will cooperate, where they conflict, and what it will take for professionals to design and build the next-generation Intelligent Web. The authors show how user interfaces will evolve from click to speech; preview next-generation wireless personal area networks; explain how networks will evolve to an integrated wired/wireless infrastructure; cover next-generation mobile IP protocols; review AI improvements that are making the Web far smarter; and show how the Web's architecture is moving from "dumb and static" to "intelligent and dynamic." For all product designers, engineers, software developers, and other technical innovators.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xiii
List of Tables	xv
Introduction	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxv
About the Authors	xxvii
PART I Connecting People to Devices	1	(52)
Developing a Framework for the Intelligent Wireless Web	3	(28)
The Wireless Communication Process	7	(3)
User Interface: From Click to Speech	10	(4)
Personal Space: From Wired to Wireless	14	(2)
Project Oxygen	15	(1)
Networks: From Wired to Integrated Wired/Wireless	16	(3)
Protocols: From IP to Mobile IP	19	(3)
Web Architecture: Dumb and Static to Intelligent and Dynamic	22	(5)
Self Organizing Software and Adaptive Protocols	25	(2)
Web IQ	27	(1)
Conclusion	27	(4)
Speech Recognition and Understanding	31	(22)
Man-Machine Communications	32	(7)
Voice Recording and Analysis	32	(2)
Language	34	(2)
Speech/Sound Recording, Compression, and Analysis	36	(3)
Speech Recognition and Understanding	39	(9)
Speech Recognition	43	(2)
Speech Representation, Storage, Transmission, and Analysis	45	(1)
Speech Understanding	45	(2)
Examples of Voice Activation	47	(1)
Future Trends	48	(2)
Challenges and Opportunities	50	(1)
Conclusion	50	(3)
PART II Connecting Devices to Devices	53	(114)
Wireless Personal Area Networks	55	(34)
Personal Space	55	(15)
Proliferating Personal Devices	57	(5)
Personal Area Networks for the Home	62	(4)
PAN Technologies and Standards for the Home	66	(4)
Mobile Software	70	(9)
Bluetooth	72	(2)
Jini	74	(4)
Universal Plug and Play	78	(1)
Ubiquitous Computing Research	79	(6)
MIT's Project Oxygen	79	(6)
Challenges and Opportunities	85	(2)
Conclusion	87	(2)
Merging Wired and Wireless Networks	89	(48)
Wired Networks	90	(9)
Routers and Switches	96	(3)
Asynchronous Transfer Mode	99	(7)
SONET Networks	100	(1)
Ethernet Networks	100	(1)
Wired Multiplexors	101	(1)
Signals	102	(1)
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing	102	(1)
Switching	103	(3)
Wireless Networks	106	(12)
Benefits of Wireless Networking	108	(1)
Concerns	109	(1)
Crowded Airways	109	(2)
Terrestrial Microwave	111	(1)
Wireless Local Area Network	112	(2)
Radio Based	114	(1)
Medium Access Control	114	(1)
Spread Spectrum Modulation	115	(1)
Narrowband Modulation	115	(1)
Wireless Local Bridges	115	(1)
Infrared Light-based Wireless Local Area Networks	116	(1)
Diffuse Infrared-Based Local Area Networks	116	(1)
Wireless Point-to-Point Networks	116	(1)
IEEE 802.11 Standard	116	(2)
Wireless Wide Area Networks	118	(6)
The State of Wireless Wide Area Networks	122	(1)
Wireless Application Service Provider	123	(1)
Network Integration	124	(4)
Migrating Networks	126	(2)
Broadband Access	128	(4)
Mobility and the Wireless Web	130	(2)
MIT's Project Oxygen Network 21	132	(1)
Challenges and Opportunities	133	(2)
Conclusion	135	(2)
Merging Wireless Devices with the Web	137	(30)
Mobile Wireless	137	(4)
How Cellular Technology Works	138	(3)
Second-Generation Mobile Wireless Technologies	141	(3)
Global System for Mobile Communication	142	(1)
Time Division Multiple Access	143	(1)
Code Division Multiple Access	143	(1)
Third-Generation Mobile Wireless Technologies	144	(7)
The General Packet Radio Service	145	(2)
Migration Strategies	147	(1)
Wireless Streaming Video Technologies	147	(1)
Technology Projections	148	(1)
Wireless Handheld Devices	149	(2)
The Internet	151	(6)
Internet Transfer Protocols	152	(2)
Mobile Protocols	154	(1)
Mobile IP	155	(2)
The Wireless Internet	157	(3)
How WA P Works	158	(1)
Communications Between Client and Server	159	(1)
Wireless Markup Language	160	(2)
Alternatives to WML	161	(1)
Comparing Wireless Web Services	162	(2)
Challenges and Opportunities	164	(1)
Conclusion	165	(2)
PART III Connecting Devices to People	167	(106)
Artificial Intelligence	169	(20)
Intelligence	170	(3)
Artificial Intelligence Methods	173	(11)
Problem Solving Through Search	174	(2)
Knowledge Representation and Inference	176	(1)
Expert Systems	177	(1)
Learning, Neural Net, and Adaptation	178	(1)
Neural Networks	179	(1)
Adaptive Software	180	(2)
Data Mining	182	(1)
Agents	183	(1)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence	184	(4)
Conclusion	188	(1)
Merging Artificial Intelligence with the Web	189	(38)
How Smart Are Web Applications Today?	190	(10)
Enterprise Information Portals	190	(2)
Extensible Markup Language Standards, Frameworks, and Schema	192	(3)
Web Services	195	(2)
Comparing J2EE and .NET	197	(3)
What Is Web Intelligence?	200	(2)
How Does the Web Learn?	202	(18)
Databases and Machine Learning	204	(3)
Extensible Markup Language	207	(3)
Resource Description Framework and Topic Map Convergence	210	(3)
Semantic Web Road Map	213	(1)
The Logic Layer	214	(1)
Self-Organizing Software and Adaptive Protocols	215	(3)
Genetic Algorithms	218	(2)
Where Does Web Intelligence Reside?	220	(3)
Distributed Computing and Distributed Artificial Intelligence	220	(3)
Challenges and Opportunities	223	(2)
Conclusion	225	(2)
Speech Synthesis and Translation	227	(12)
Text-to-Speech Generators	227	(3)
Speech Synthesis Markup Language	230	(3)
Translation	233	(3)
Challenges and Opportunities	236	(1)
Conclusion	236	(3)
Technological Revolution	239	(14)
How Does Revolutionary Change Occur?	239	(4)
How Does the Information Age Save Time?	243	(5)
Global Economic Integration	245	(2)
The Impact of Information Technology Spending on Productivity	247	(1)
Why Intelligent Wireless Devices Improve Productivity	248	(3)
Conclusion	251	(2)
Progress in Developing the Intelligent Wireless Web	253	(20)
Future Wireless Communication Processes	254	(4)
User Interface: From Click to Speech	258	(2)
Personal Space: From Wired to Wireless	260	(1)
Networks: From Wired to Integrated Wired/Wireless	260	(2)
Protocols: From Internet Protocol to Mobile Internet Protocol	262	(2)
Web Architecture: Dumb and Static to Intelligent and Dynamic	264	(1)
Strategic Planning Guidelines	264	(5)
Balancing Hardware and Software Innovation	266	(1)
Balancing Proprietary and Open Standards	267	(1)
Balancing Centralized and Distributed Web Architectures	268	(1)
Conclusion	269	(4)
Appendix A Standards Organizations	273	(8)
Appendix B Wireless Standards	281	(2)
Appendix C Graphs and the Web	283	(4)
Appendix D Dynamic Languages	287	(4)
Appendix E Wireless Security	291	(4)
Appendix F Visual Prolog	295	(4)
Appendix G Knowledge Management: Case Study of Convera's RetrievalWare	299	(10)
Appendix H List of Acronyms	309	(6)
Appendix I Glossary	315	(16)
Bibliography	331	(4)
Index	335