Impact of Applying Aggregate Query Processing in Mobile Commerce

  • Authors:
  • Say Ying Lim;Siew Fan Wong

  • Affiliations:
  • Sunway University, Malaysia;Sunway University, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

With the increased usage of mobile devices, society is seeing more and more users doing transactions wirelessly. Often, data from a single server may not be sufficient. Rather, data may need to be manipulated and to be gathered from multiple remote servers before useful information can be formed. Mobile transactions are constrained by small screen size of mobile devices, high communication cost, and high memory consumption. Existing techniques from traditional query processing in distributed environments cannot be directly applied to mobile environments. In this paper, the authors propose techniques for processing mobile queries that address the issue of high memory consumption. A set of walkthrough examples was provided and performances of various techniques were examined. The results show that the technique of first downloading primary keys only from one server and then sending a query to the second server using these primary keys before processing for qualified match in the second server gives the best performance.