DYNAMIC WAP BASED VOTING SYSTEM Bertrand COLAS Submission date: May 2002 School of Computing Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Supervisor: Dr Bill Buchanan 2 nd Marker: Dr Gordon Russell

Introduction 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 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.

Technologies 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 Graphical representation of votes Voting interface Generation of templates Integration of Java Applet into user interface Dynamic WML content Generation Administration of system via WAP and Web interfaces System Administration part

Evaluation and Conclusions Users: feedback on the overall navigation and graphical performance of the voting system Technical: Stress test on the efficiency of votes storage (Visual Basic Client- Server) Evaluations: Conclusions: Simplicity of integration into existing Web platforms Weakness on concurrent requests control (possible enhancements) Attractive way to display vote results with Haneng Charts