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Mobile Wireless Computing: Challenges in Data Management
Tomasz Imielisnky, B.R. Badrinath, Rutgers U.
One-line summary:
Overview/Main Points
- Challenges: mobility/scalability, poor NW¹s, power mgmt...the usual
- Mail enabled apps will constitute "core" of MC (!)
- Discussion of various wireless media, their flaws, etc; proxied computing for power mgmt
- Push of info from mobile to server: location-dependent, but seen as a network-layer (routing) problem. Claim: Mobility doesn¹t affect application layer much.
- Challenge: how to locate user (location mgmt)
- Data broadcasting vs. interactive/on-demand approaches to BW mgmt (e.g. frequently rebroadcast frequently-used data items, treats air as a storage medium!)
Relevance
The idea of treating air as storage medium (broadcast of frequently used items) is interesting. Otherwise a discussion of the Rutgers mobile-IP and friends architecture.
Flaws
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