Supporting Collaborative Work by Process-Based Transaction Model
Collaborative work presupposes information exchange among participants. In contrast, traditional transaction technologies allow concurrent users to operate on shared...
Rumor: Mobile Data Access Through Optimistic Peer-to-Peer Replication
Rumor is an optimistically replicated file system designed for use in mobile computers. Rumor uses a peer model that...
A Cooperative Distributed Text Database Management Method Unifying Search and Compression Based on the...
A new text database management method for distributed cooperative environments is proposed, which can collect texts in distributed sites...
A Copy Update Mechanism for a Mobile Information Announcement System
In this paper, the bandwidth problem between a mobile computer and an access point is discussed, and a copy...
Constructing Structured Document Views
We propose a database language to manipulate XML documents. The language is designed to meet the requirements for constructing...
Toward Optimal Replication for Hierarchical Location Management in Wireless Systems
The location information of users can be replicated at various databases in a hierarchy to improve the efficiency of...
Temporal Objects for Spatio-Temporal Data Models and a Comparison of Their Representations
We present anew approach to temporal data modeling based on the very general notion of temporal object. Moreover, we...
Distributed Control of Mobile ATM Networks Using CORBA
This paper reports the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of a CORBA based distributed control architecture for mobile ATM...
New Thoughts on Effects of TCP Slow Start and FEC Coding in WATM Access...
This paper takes a fresh look at coding parameters optimisation, TCP operation and adaptive modulation in the context of...
A Centralised Cellular Database to Support Network Management Process
A solution for cellular network data management is described which has been applied to the mobile network of Telecom...