A collective transaction processing scheme for mobile environment

  • Authors:
  • S. Kami Makki

  • Affiliations:
  • Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Technical advances in development of portable computers and wireless technology permit users to actively get advantage of mobile computing environment. Better and faster communication mechanisms provided the needed flexibility which is demanded by variety of applications with stringent requirements. However, there are certain major issues that need to be taken seriously in this environment, such as reliability, concurrency control and data recovery, as there may exist more than one user in any one time to access or execute a transaction. A transaction is expressed in centralized or distributed environment as an atomic activity, while in a mobile environment a transaction is a long-lived process and this process may have to be split into sets of operations executed some on mobile host and others on stationary host. Therefore, the task of ensuring consistency becomes more difficult in mobile environment. In this paper we study these issues and propose a reliable transaction model which combines the advantages of existing models to capture the data and mobility requirements in mobile environment.