Data and Transaction Management in a Mobile Environment

Abstract

The mobile computing paradigm has emerged due to advances in wireless or cellular networking technology. This rapidly expanding technology poses many challenging research problems in the area of mobile database systems. Mobile users can access information independent of their physical location through wireless connections. However, accessing and manipulating information without restricting users to specific locations complicates data processing activities. There are computing constraints that make mobile database processing different from the wired distributed database computing. In this chapter, we survey the fundamental research challenges particular to mobile database computing, review some of the proposed solutions and identify some of the upcoming research challenges. We discuss interesting research areas, which include mobile location data management, transaction processing and broadcast, cache management and replication. We highlight new upcoming research directions in mobile digital library, mobile data warehousing, mobile workflow and mobile web and e-commerce. © 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow.

Department(s)

Computer Science

Keywords and Phrases

Distributed database; Mobile computing; Mobile database; Wireless or cellular networking

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1387-666X

Document Type

Article - Journal

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text

Language(s)

English

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© 2024 Springer, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2002

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