ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS FOR WIRELESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS

The impact on the intense exchange of information makes essential the use of Wireless Information Systems (WIS). Further, the use of standards like the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in this kind of system means that the applications can be made available on a massive scale. Before implementing a WIS designed with this type of standard, it is necessary to analyze the different scenarios in which it might be implemented because these systems can be very complex, being very expensive or impossible to improve them once developed; for this reason the importance of carrying out an evaluation architectural of their design before developing it. This paper describes the architectural analysis of a WIS based WAP architecture for an insurance company. The analysis focuses the Modifiability and Portability attributes because they are deemed to be fundamental for the WIS client company. The best architecture was selected using the evaluation method known as the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM).