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A mobile virtual-distributed system architecture for supporting wireless mobile computing and communications

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This paper describes a novel mobile virtual-distrubuted system architecture for supporting global mobile computing and communications. the principal contribution of this paper is to innovatively apply virtual memory concepts to mobile systems by deploying mobile-floating agents to de-couple services and resources from the underlying network and allow them to move around following their mobile users. The mobile-floating agents maintain data structures associated with a mobile user. By combining the mobile-floating agent functions with a predictive mobility management algorithm and location-aware caching and prefetching, services and user data structure are pre-connected and pre-assigned at the locations to which the user is moving. Thus, the users can maintain their data structures or immediately receive service with virtually the same efficiency as at the previous location.

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  1. System Research Department, Ericsson Radio Systems, S-164 80, Stockholm, Sweden

    George Y. Liu & Aleksander Marlevi

  2. Department of Teleinformatics, Royal Institute of Technology, S-164 40, Stockholm, Sweden

    Gerald Q. Maguire Jr.

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Liu, G.Y., Marlevi, A. & Maguire, G.Q. A mobile virtual-distributed system architecture for supporting wireless mobile computing and communications. Wireless Netw 2, 77–86 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01201463

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