Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
IP-based protocols for mobile internetworking
SIGCOMM '91 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architecture & protocols
Database system issues in nomadic computing
SIGMOD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Automated resolution of semantic heterogeneity in multidatabases
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
A mobile transaction model that captures both the data and movement behavior
Mobile Networks and Applications
Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
Communications of the ACM
Distributed Database Systems
Overview of multidatabase transaction management
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
The Challenges of Mobile Computing
Computer
MCE: An Integrated Mobile Computing Environment and Simulation Testbed
MLICS '95 Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing
A Transaction Model for Mobile Computing
IDEAS '98 Proceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on Database Engineering & Applications
Concurrent Data Access in Mobile Heterogeneous Systems
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
A mobile networking system based on internet protocol(IP)
MLCS Mobile & Location-Independent Computing Symposium on Mobile & Location-Independent Computing Symposium
Concurrency control in distributed object-oriented database systems
ADBIS'97 Proceedings of the First East-European conference on Advances in Databases and Information systems
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Advances in wireless networking technology and portable computing devices have led to the emergence of a new computing paradigm known as mobile computing and a number of applications. As a result, software applications have to be redesigned to take advantage of this environment while accommodating the new challenges posed by mobility. As mobile users wander about, they are bound to encounter a variety of different information sources (databases) that are often autonomous and heterogeneous in nature. Such a collection of autonomous and heterogeneous database is often known as a multidatabase. The existing multidatabase systems do not readily support mobile computing. A new class of multidatabase that provides access to a large collection of data via a wireless networking connection is proposed -- a Mobile Data Access System (MDAS). Within the scope of MDAS, a new transaction-processing model is proposed that allows timely and reliable access to heterogeneous and autonomous data sources while coping with the mobility issue. The proposed model extends the existing multidatabase system without any adverse effect to the preexisting local and global users. This is accomplished through the implementation of multi tiered mobile transaction proxies that manage the execution of mobile transactions on behalf of the mobile user. The proposed transaction-processing model is simulated and the results are analyzed.