DYNAMIC WAP BASED VOTING SYSTEM

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DYNAMIC WAP BASED VOTING SYSTEM
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Computer
Networks and Distributed Systems
Supervisor Dr Bill Buchanan 2nd Marker Dr
Gordon Russell
Bertrand COLAS
00279226
Submission date May 2002
School of Computing
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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.

• 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

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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)

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Implementation
Man of the Match Award prototype

• Generation of templates
• Integration of Java Applet into user interface
• Dynamic WML content Generation
• Administration of system via WAP and Web
  interfaces

Graphical representation of votes
System Administration part
Voting interface
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Evaluation and Conclusions
Evaluations

• 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)

Conclusions

• Simplicity of integration into existing Web
  platforms
• Weakness on concurrent requests control (possible
  enhancements)
• Attractive way to display vote results with
  Haneng Charts