Mobile Wireless Computing: Challenges in Data Management

Tomasz Imielisnky, B.R. Badrinath, Rutgers U.

One-line summary:

Overview/Main Points

Challenges: mobility/scalability, poor NW�s, 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 doesn�t 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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