MobiCom '97 Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Automated hoarding for mobile computers
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Π2 -- a generic proxy platform for wireless access and mobility in CORBA
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Linux Journal
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Supporting the WWW in wireless communications through mobile agents
Mobile Networks and Applications
Understanding the Linux Kernel
Understanding the Linux Kernel
Simplifying automated hoarding methods
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The Network RamDisk: Using remote memory on heterogeneous NOWs
Cluster Computing
Mobile Networks and Applications
Dynamic power management strategies within the IEEE 802.11 standard
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Wireless mobile terminals have limited storage memory due to weight, size and power constraints. Potentially unlimited virtual memory could be found on remote servers made accessible through a wireless link, but power hungry wireless network interface cards (WNIC) may reduce the battery lifetime if not efficiently exploited, actually limiting the practical interest of network virtual memory (NVM). On the other hand, when network memory is used for swapping, service performance can be an issue. In this tutorial we discuss the feasibility of network swapping for wireless mobile terminals. First, we perform extensive experiments to compare performance and energy of network swapping with those of local swapping on microdrives and flash memories. Our results show that remote swap devices made accessible through a power-manageable WNIC can be even more efficient than local microdrives. Second, we address the issue of mobility management by presenting an infrastructure providing efficient remote memory access to mobile terminals. We report experimental results obtained on a working prototype of the proposed infrastructure.