Real-time Content Filtering for Mobile Devices

Philip West Greg Foster and Peter Clayton

Department of Computer ScienceRhodes University

Quality of Service

QoS performance dimensions: Network Availability Bandwidth Delay Jitter Loss

Mobile Issues

Wireless networks: Available bandwidth

Mobile devices Processing power Screen size

Content Filtering

XML HTML

User specified and/or Adaptive Processed server-side

Web Service

Display TerminalWireless Access

Point

MobileDevice

ContentServer

Content Filtering

Spatial Representation

Textual Representation

Content Filtering

Expected outcomes: Adaptation to available bandwidth Reduction in number of packets Reduction in packet loss

Resulting in: Improvement of QoS

Project Status

Currently: System implementation

In future: Alternative methods Testing Optimisations

Real-time Content Filtering for Mobile Devices

Philip WestDepartment of Computer Science

Rhodes University