The goal of the MOWGLI project is to study, design and test a data communication architecture for a pan-European GSM-based mobile data service, and alike. The environment of an application consists of mobile PC's which can be connected over a wireless WAN to the Internet. The work in the project is concentrated on the architectural aspects supporting mobility-aware computing. The main issues have been data transport service for constrained wireless links, control of computing in weakly connected and disconnected states, support for legacy software in a mobile environment and design of mobility-aware application software for nomadic users (file transfer, e-mail, WWW), and communication performance in this environment. The experimental research is based on a prototype implementation of the architecture.
The members of the MOWGLI project group are Prof. Martti Tienari, Dr. Timo Alanko, Assoc. Prof. Kimmo Raatikainen, M.Sc. Heikki Helin, M.Sc. Markku Kojo, and M.Sc. Heimo Laamanen. The industrial partners of the project are Nokia Mobile Phones, Nokia Research Centre, Nokia Telecommunications Systems, SSH Communications Security, and Telecom Finland. Publications: [6-9, 11-14, 19, 38, 45]. Home Page: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/research/mowgli/