Jang Dae-Jin, Park Kee-Hyun, Ju Hong-Taek, Woo Jong-Jung, Journal of Internet Computing and Services, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 61-70, Jun. 2006
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Keywords: SyncML, ActiveSync Protocol, Mobile Computing, Data Synchronization, Conversion Gateway

Abstract

Data synchronization between data stored in mobile communication terminals and a central server is one of essential tasks for efficient mobile communication environments. Since, however, manufacturers of mobile terminals have their proprietary data synchronization mechanisms, data interoperability can hardly be achieved. Therefore, SyncML data synchronization mechanism in mobile communication environments was proposed as an open standard by OMA(Open Mobile Alliance). In this paper, a SyncML-based data synchronization gateway is designed and implemented which can process ActiveSync data also. In other words, by constructing a combined data synchronization gateway which can transform ActiveSync data into SyncML data, data interoperability between mobile terminals which use two different data synchronization mechanisms can be achieved, In addition, mobile communication experiments between ActiveSync-based terminals and a SyncML-based central server show that the data synchronization gateway constructed in this paper, works correctly.

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