/ireless in the enterprise 355 Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Varshney, U Malloy, A, Ahluwalia, P. and Jain, R.(2004)'Wireless in the enterprise requirements, solutions and research directions, Int. J. Mobile Communications, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 354-367 ai Georgia State University, Atlanta. He has authored over 70 papers on wireless networks, mobile commerce and other topics nternational conferences. Many of his papers are among the most widely cited ublications in m-commerce. He has delivered over 50 invited speeches ng several keynotes at conferences and workshops awarded the Myron T Greene CIS Outstanding Teaching Award in 2000 and the rCB College Outstanding Teaching Award in 2002. During 2000-2002, he was a guest editor for ACM/Kluwer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications MONET)'s special issue on mobile commerce(with Ron Vetter). He is also or the editorial board of IEEE Computer and International Journal on Mobile Communications. He has also served on the programme committees of IEEE CNC, IEEE LCN, ACM Workshop on Mobile Commerce, HICSS and several other international conferences Alisha Malloy is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She received a PhD in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University in 2002 after receiving a BS from the Us Naval Academy and an MS from Old Dominion University She is very interested in wireless communications, wireless enterprise, mobile commerce, network dependability and modelling and simulation of networks Dr Malloy has published papers in ACM/Kluwer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications(MONET), Computers, the Encyclopedia of Information ystems and several others. She was the KPMG Doctoral Fellow from 1998 to 2002. Dr Malloy is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery, the Association for Information Systems, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics engineers. Punit Ahluwalia is a Doctoral Student at the Cis department of Georgia State University since 2002. He received an Ms in Cis from Georgia State University in 2002. He is very interested in quality of service in wireless networks, mobile commerce, wireless enterprise and modelling and simulation of networks. He has published papers in many journals and conferences including IJMC, Workshop on Wireless Enterprise and IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Radhika Jain is a Doctoral the Cis department of Georgia State University since Spring 2001 eived an Ms in Computer Engineering software engineering, telecommunications and wireless networkserssted in any journals and conf including IEEE Computer, AMCIS and IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 1 Introduction In the last several years, wireless networking has seen considerable interest among service providers, users, vendors and content developers. Significant advances have been made in devices, applications, middleware and networking infrastructure. Recently, theWireless in the enterprise 355 Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Varshney, U., Malloy, A., Ahluwalia, P. and Jain, R. (2004) ‘Wireless in the enterprise: requirements, solutions and research directions’, Int. J. Mobile Communications, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp.354–367. Biographical notes: Upkar Varshney is an Associate Professor of CIS at Georgia State University, Atlanta. He has authored over 70 papers on wireless networks, mobile commerce and other topics in major journals and international conferences. Many of his papers are among the most widely cited publications in m-commerce. He has delivered over 50 invited speeches, including several keynotes at conferences and workshops. Upkar was awarded the Myron T. Greene CIS Outstanding Teaching Award in 2000 and the RCB College Outstanding Teaching Award in 2002. During 2000–2002, he was a guest editor for ACM/Kluwer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET)’s special issue on mobile commerce (with Ron Vetter). He is also on the editorial board of IEEE Computer and International Journal on Mobile Communications. He has also served on the programme committees of IEEE WCNC, IEEE LCN, ACM Workshop on Mobile Commerce, HICSS and several other international conferences. Alisha Malloy is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She received a PhD in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University in 2002 after receiving a BS from the US Naval Academy and an MS from Old Dominion University. She is very interested in wireless communications, wireless enterprise, mobile commerce, network dependability and modelling and simulation of networks. Dr Malloy has published papers in ACM/Kluwer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Computers, the Encyclopedia of Information Systems and several others. She was the KPMG Doctoral Fellow from 1998 to 2002. Dr Malloy is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery, the Association for Information Systems, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Punit Ahluwalia is a Doctoral Student at the CIS department of Georgia State University since 2002. He received an MS in CIS from Georgia State University in 2002. He is very interested in quality of service in wireless networks, mobile commerce, wireless enterprise and modelling and simulation of networks. He has published papers in many journals and conferences including IJMC, Workshop on Wireless Enterprise and IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Radhika Jain is a Doctoral Student at the CIS department of Georgia State University since Spring 2001. She received an MS in Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2000. She is very interested in software engineering, telecommunications and wireless networks. She has published papers in many journals and conferences including IEEE Computer, AMCIS and IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. 1 Introduction In the last several years, wireless networking has seen considerable interest among service providers, users, vendors and content developers. Significant advances have been made in devices, applications, middleware and networking infrastructure. Recently, the