Abstract
Mobile devices such as laptops, cellular phones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), have recently been of immense use and particularly started getting considerable attention in database systems. Mobile users on the MHs (or mobile devices) may interact with a database system in retrieving objects or they may interact with other mobile devices via wireless network. Hence, a DDBS is expected to support a computer network comprising a number of MHs. As discussed in Chapter 1, due to the mobility and disconnection of MHs, it is important for a DDBS in a MCE to provide a continuous network connectivity to the MHs regardless of their locations [BAI94, IB92]. Additionally, it is very well known that a wireless network bandwidth availability is very limited and hence object management in a MCE poses many challenges to the database designers. Thus, in this chapter, we address the issues of OMPs in MCEs.
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Lin, W., Veeravalli, B. (2003). Object Management in Mobile Computing Environments. In: Object Management in Distributed Database Systems for Stationary and Mobile Computing Environments. Network Theory and Applications, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9176-8_5
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