Disconnected operation in the Coda File System
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Mobile wireless computing: challenges in data management
Communications of the ACM
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A cost-benefit framework for online management of a metacomputing system
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on information and computational economics
Data Management for Mobile Computing
Data Management for Mobile Computing
IEEE Concurrency
Agent Tcl: Targeting the Needs of Mobile Computers
IEEE Internet Computing
MASIF: The OMG Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facility
MA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents
ANTARCTICA: A Multiagent System for Internet Data Services in a Wireless Computing Framework
IMWS '01 Revised Papers from the NSF Workshop on Developing an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems
On disconnected browsing of distributed information
RIDE '97 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE '97) High Performance Database Management for Large-Scale Applications
Mobile Agents for WWW Distributed Database Access
ICDE '99 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering
Implementing True Multicast Communications Support for the JADE/LEAP Agent Framework
ENC '05 Proceedings of the Sixth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science
Agent-based ambient intelligence for healthcare
AI Communications - Agents Applied in Health Care
A system based on mobile agents to test mobile computing applications
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
A clustered routing protocol with distributed intrusion detection for wireless sensor networks
APWeb/WAIM'07 Proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific web and 8th international conference on web-age information management conference on Advances in data and web management
iSCSI multi-connection and error recovery method for remote storage system in mobile appliance
ICCSA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part II
Assessing the SALSA architecture for developing agent-based ambient computing applications
Science of Computer Programming
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The possibility of accessing and/or receiving local or remote data anywhere and at anytime constitutes an important advantage in many business environments. However, when working with mobile devices, users face many problems, such as: (1) devise exposure problems --- mobile devices are more vulnerable and fragile than stationary devices, because they can be easily stolen, lost or damaged, (2) media problems --- wireless communications are often unstable, asymmetric and expensive, and (3) availability problems --- mobile devices stay disconnected for long periods of time. To alleviate these problems, we present a service, Data Lockers, which offers to its users first, the possibility of keeping their data in a secure and safe space in a proxy, thus alleviating the device exposure problem. Next, data stored in a data locker are available even when the mobile device is disconnected, thus providing a solution to the availability problem. Finally, specific tasks are carried out at the fixed network on behalf of the mobile user, in this way relieving the media problem. The architecture of the Locker Rental Service is based on mobile agents. These agents, and the locker, stay always close to the location of the user, traveling to meet the user wherever the user moves, therefore, allowing users to use anywhere-anytime, ubiquitous persistent storage space located at the fixed network.