SMS-Based Information Search and Retrieval System
SMS-Based Information Search and Retrieval System.
ABSTRACT
This thesis “Short Messaging System (SMS) Based Information Search and Retrieval System” describes a technology facility that will enable local information to be collected and put in a repository system (Database),
such that a mobile user using the facility will be able to search for such information from any location where Global System for Mobile Communications(GSM) services are available.
The work concentrates on developing the server-side program that will run as the search program to reply every text message sent to it and to provide the most accurate results through a database query and sending response as a replied text message.
A structural relational database that serves as the back end data storage was uniquely designed as well as an algorithm that works as the search program for retrieving information from the database.
Hypertext Pre-Processor (PHP) was used as the Server Side Scripting language because of its ability to work as a plug-in application to most Web-Servers like Internet Information Services (IIS) and Apache, with MYSQL as the database engine.
TABLE OF CONTENT
APPROVAL PAGE ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. iii
DECLARATION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… iv
CERTIFICATION …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. v
DEDICATION ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. vi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. vii
ABSTRACT ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. viii
TABLE OF CONTENT ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ix
TABLE OF FIGURES ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… xi
LIST OF TABLES …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. xii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1
1.1 Background of the Study ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1
1.1.1 Search Engines ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2
1.2 Statement of the Problem ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 3
1.3 Aims and Objectives ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4
1.4 Significance of the Research ……………………………………………………………………………….. 5
1.5 Scope of the Study ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 6
1.6 Justification for the Study………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
1.7 Thesis Outline …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 7
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW………………………………………………………………………………………….. 8
2.1 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 8
2.2 Historical Development of GSM Text Messaging ………………………………………………….. 9
2.3 Short Messaging Gateways …………………………………………………………………………………………. 12
2.4 SMS Base Search and Retrieval Systems ………………………………………………………………. 14
2.5 SMS Search with Google SMS …………………………………………………………………………………….. 17
2.5.1 How Google SMS works …………………………………………………………………………………………. 18
2.5.2 Google SMS Design Constraints ……………………………………………………………………….. 19
2.6 Inherent Limitations of SMS Services ………………………………………………………………… 19
CHAPTER THREE: PROGRAM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION ……………………………………………………. 21
3.1 System Design ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 21
3.2 Database Design …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 23
CHAPTER FOUR: SIMULATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS …………………………………………………………………… 62
4.1 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 62
4.2 Testing the Whole Process ………………………………………………………………………………………. 63
4.3 Discussion of Results……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 72
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION ……………………………………………………………………………. 76
5.1 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 76
5.2 Summary of Thesis Work …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 77
5.3 Suggestions for Future Research …………………………………………………………………………… 78
REFERENCES …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 80
APPENDIX A– DATABASE COMMANDS ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 84
APPENDIX B- PHP PROGRAM CODES …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 87
INTRODUCTION
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the use of electronic devices such as computers, telephone devices, network devices, telecommunication infrastructures, software and people to collect data, process and disseminate information to various destinations in a presentable format that can be meaningful to a recipient.
The term that is widely attributed to ICT is basically the Internet which is made possible by the interconnection of host computers called Servers and other node computers called Clients across the globe by use of Network Infrastructural Devices.
Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) is another form of ICT which makes it possible for the information to be transmitted via host service provider’s servers to a mobile recipient via a handheld device called mobile phone or handsets by means of voice data or text data transmission.
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