The need to design an optimally distributed database is increasingly important with the
growth of information technology and computer networks. However, designing a distributed …

Improving the performance of a database system is one of the key research issues now a
day. Distributed processing is an effective way to improve reliability and performance of a …

Abstract In Distributed Database Systems (DDBS), communication costs and response time
have long been open-ended challenges. Nevertheless, when DDBS is carefully designed …

Abstract Designing an efficient Distributed Database System (DDBS) is considered as one of
the most challenging problems because of multiple interdependent factors which are …

Distributed database systems are gaining importance due to the production in massive
amount of data. The efficacy of such systems is highly dependent upon the design of the …

Distributed database technology is expected to have a significant impact on data processing
in the upcoming years. Today's business environment has an increasing need for distributed …

The problem of allocating data fragments to the most appropriate sites of a distributed
database systems is a difficult one to solve, however, most available approaches rely on …

An efficient way of improving the performance of a database management system is
distributed processing. Distribution of data involves fragmentation or partitioning, replication …

With the growth of information technology and computer networks, there is a vital need for
optimal design of distributed databases with the aim of performance improvement in terms of …

Among the techniques that the distributed database designer considers for performance
improvement are fragmentation, replication and allocation techniques. Fragmentation is the …