This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Data Access, MDA'99, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 1999.
The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 39 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on wireless networks and communications, transaction processing in mobile environments, ubiquitous information services, mobile data replication and caching, and mobility and location management.
Author(s): Jin Yang, Ioannis Kriaras (auth.), Hong Va Leong, Wang-Chien Lee, Bo Li, Li Yin (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1748
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 239
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Communications Engineering, Networks
Wireless VoIP: Opportunities and Challenges....Pages 3-13
GSM Mobile Phone Based Communication of Multimedia Information: A Case Study....Pages 14-24
A Witness-Aided Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with Unidirectional Links....Pages 24-33
Assessing Opportunities for Broadband Optical Wireless Local Loops in an Unbundled Access Network....Pages 34-44
On Simulation Modeling of Information Dissemination Systems in Mobile Environments....Pages 45-57
On the Performance of Transaction Processing in Broadcast Environments....Pages 61-70
Transaction Processing in an Asymmetric Mobile Environment....Pages 71-82
Speculative Lock Management to Increase Concurrency in Mobile Environments....Pages 82-96
Optimistic Concurrency Control in Broadcast Environments: Looking Forward at the Server and Backward at the Clients....Pages 97-106
Modelling the WAP Transaction Service Using Coloured Petri Nets....Pages 109-118
Enabling Ubiquitous Database Access with XML....Pages 119-134
Design and Evaluation of an Information Announcement Mechanism for Mobile Computers....Pages 135-145
Active Rule System for Adaptive Mobile Data Access....Pages 146-155
Preserving Smooth Traffic and High Presentation QoS for VBR-Encoded Video....Pages 156-165
Peer Replication with Selective Control....Pages 169-181
Cache Coherency in Location-Dependent Information Services for Mobile Environment....Pages 182-193
An Autonomous Data Coherency Protocol for Mobile Devices....Pages 194-205
Location Management Strategies for Reducing Both Movement Cost and Locating Cost Simultaneously....Pages 209-219
Internet Mobility Support Optimized for Client Access and Its Scalable Authentication Framework....Pages 220-229
Proxy Agent Consistency Service Based on CORBA....Pages 230-239
Integrating Mobile Objects into the Wirelessly Wired World: The Need for Energy Efficient Algorithms....Pages 243-243
Databases Unplugged: Challenges in Ubiquitous Data Management....Pages 244-244
