A mobile transaction model that captures both the data and movement behavior

  • Authors:
  • Margaret H. Dunham;Abdelsalam Helal;Santosh Balakrishnan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX;MCC, 3500 West Balcones Center Dr., Austin, TX;Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

  • Venue:
  • Mobile Networks and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Unlike distributed transactions, mobile transactions do not originate and end at the same site. The implication of the movement of such transactions is that classical atomicity, concurrency and recovery solutions must be revisited to capture the movement behavior. As an effort in this direction, we define a model of mobile transactions by building on the concepts of split transactions and global transactions in a multidatabase environment. Our view of mobile transactions, called Kangaroo Transactions, incorporates the property that transactions in a mobile computing system hop from one base station to another as the mobile unit moves through cells. Our model is the first to capture this movement behavior as well as the data behavior which reflects the access to data located in databases throughout the static network. The mobile behavior is dynamic and is realized in our model via the use of split operations. The data access behavior is captured by using the idea of global and local transactions in a multidatabase system.