Data Management for Mobile Computing
Evaggelia Pitoura and George Samaras
Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN: 0-7923-8053-3
Although being a relatively new area, data management for mobile computing
has provoked a proliferation of research efforts motivated by both a great
market potential and by many challenging research problems. The purpose of
this authored book is to provide a thorough and cohesive overview of these
recent advances in wireless and mobile data management. The focus is on the
impact of mobile computing on data management beyond the networking level.
The book is written with a critical attitude. It probes the new issues
introduced by wireless and mobile access to data and what are both their
conceptual and practical consequences.
DATA MANAGEMENT FOR MOBILE COMPUTING provides a single source for researchers
and practitioners who want to keep current on the latest innovations in the
field. It can also serve as a textbook for an advanced course on mobile computing
or as a companion text for a variety of courses including courses on distributed
systems, database management, transaction management, operating or file systems,
information retrieval or dissemination, and web computing.
For additional information on this book, take a look at:
http://www.cs.uoi.gr/~pitoura/book.html
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PREFACE
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Wireless Technologies
1.2 Wireless Architectures
1.3 Applications
1.4 Issues and Limitations
CHAPTER 2: SOFTWARE ARCITECTURES
2.1 Mobile Computing Models
2.2 Environmental Awareness
2.3 An Example: Web Browsing
CHAPTER 3: SYSTEM-LEVEL SUPPORT
3.1 Disconnecetd Operation
3.2 Weak Connectivity
3.3 Mobility
3.4 Failure Recovery
CHAPTER 4: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
4.1 Broadcast
4.2 Caching and Broadcast
4.3 Querying Location Data
4.4 Other Topics
CHAPTER 5: LOCATION MANAGEMENT
5.1 The Location Problem
5.2 Two-Tier Schemes
5.3 Hierarchical Schemes
5.4 Evaluating Performance
5.5 Concurrency and Recovery
CHAPTER 6: CASE STUDIES
6.1 Rover
6.2 Bayou
6.3 Coda
6.4 WebExpress
CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
INDEX
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