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Evaluation on WAP
zWe evaluated the following items on the WAP test-bed system.
yFunctionality evaluation
xWAP Push
•WAP push is one of the unique functions in WAP. Investigating feasibility of WAP push is very important.
•We developed an e-mail application prototype by using the WAP push function.
yPerformance evaluation
xResponse time
•Since response time is one of the key factor of serviceability, we compared the response time of WAP1.1 and HTTP/TCP.
xWML binary encoding compression rate and processing time
•WML binary encoding is one of the unique functions in WAP.