The mobile wireless environment poses challenging problems in designing fault-tolerant
systems because of the dynamics of mobility, and limited bandwidth available on wireless …

Caching can reduce the bandwidth requirement in a mobile computing environment.
However, due to battery power limitations, a wireless mobile computer may often be forced …

To accommodate mobile hosts (MHs) within existing data networks, the static network is
augmented with “mobile support stations”(MSSs) that communicate directly with MHs …

Mobile computing represents a new paradigm that aims to provide continuous network
connectivity to users regardless of their location. To realize this aim, it is necessary to design …

The rapidly expanding technology of cellular communication, wireless LANs, and satellite
services will make information accessible anywhere and at any time. In the near future, tens …

In a wireless environment, information is broadcast on communication channels to clients
using powerful, battery-operated palmtops. To conserve the usage of energy, the information …

Cooperative applications need proper transactional support for coordinating joint activities,
sharing of data, and semantically correct exchange of information of collaborating users …

In this paper, we present both the theoretical framework and a prototype of a query
processing facility that supports the exploration and query of databases from a mobile …

In this paper, we discuss several strategies for efficient processing of three types of queries
concerning mobile hosts;(1) queries to obtain the location of a mobile host (location …

Database systems, wireless communication technologies and advanced applications have
given rise to new and challenging problems which have to be dealt with in multidatabase …