Transcript WAP Based Voting System

DYNAMIC WAP BASED
VOTING SYSTEM
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Computer
Networks and Distributed Systems
Bertrand COLAS
00279226
Submission date: May 2002
School of Computing
Supervisor: Dr Bill Buchanan
2nd Marker: Dr Gordon Russell
Introduction
The aim of the project is to produce a WAP based voting system
which allows people at an activity such as conference, sports
match or even at a lecture to vote from hand-held PC or mobile
phone.
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Exponential increase of subscribers to wireless services
Possibility to vote from anywhere
Convergence of Internet technologies with Wireless Application
Protocol (WAP)
Dynamic WML content generation to mobile devices
Technologies
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WAP Protocol
Microsoft Access Database
(Stores votes and System Properties)
Microsoft Active Server Pages
(Middleware between mobile device and content server)
Java Applet Haneng Charts (Results Display)
Microsoft IIS Server (Web Server)
Implementation
Man of the Match Award prototype
 Generation of templates
 Integration of Java Applet into user
interface
Graphical
representation of
votes
 Dynamic WML content Generation
 Administration of system via WAP
and Web interfaces
System
Administration part
Voting
interface
Evaluation and Conclusions
Evaluations:
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Users: feedback on the overall
navigation and graphical performance
of the voting system
Technical: Stress test on the efficiency
of votes storage (Visual Basic ClientServer)
Conclusions:
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Simplicity of integration into existing Web platforms
Weakness on concurrent requests control (possible enhancements)
Attractive way to display vote results with Haneng Charts