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Workshop on Infrastruture for Mobile and Wireless Systems

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Design Considerations for Mobile Client-Server Database Applications

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In this paper, we discuss the impact of wirelessness on the client-server model of database usage. Given the potential range of wireless connectivity, we envision applications involving hundreds or thousands of clients across a large geographic area. The focus of our work is partially replicated mobile databases that are connected and synchronized only intermittently. This is the prevalent architecture in sales automation and has applications in real estate, financial advising, and insurance. We take up the issues of synchronization performance and scalability, and describe the impact of mobility on server, network, and client design. A survey of relevant research is used to motivate our discussion.

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, 30332-0280, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Wai Gen Yee & Shamkant B. Navathe

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  1. Karlsruhe University, Germany

    Birgitta König-Ries

  2. Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

    Kia Makki  & Niki Pissinou  & 

  3. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    S.A.M. Makki

  4. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Peter Scheuermann

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Gen Yee, W., Navathe, S.B. (2002). Design Considerations for Mobile Client-Server Database Applications. In: König-Ries, B., Makki, K., Pissinou, N., Makki, S., Scheuermann, P. (eds) Developing an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems. IMWS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2538. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36257-6_8

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