Quasi-consistency and Caching with Broadcast Disks

  • Authors:
  • Rashmi Srinivasa;Sang Hyuk Son

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • MDM '01 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mobile Data Management
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The challenges ensuing from the asymmetric communication capabilities of mobile environments have led to an increased interest in broadcast-based data dissemination. Among the concurrency control (CC) techniques for transactional clients in broadcast environments, BCC-TI has been shown to be more efficient than a traditional technique [1]. We propose two ways of improving CC performance in broadcast environments: caching and a weaker consistency criterion. We demonstrate that caching improves query response time in BCC-TI. We propose a new CC technique called Quasi-TI that enforces a correctness criterion called quasi-consistency [2] ó useful when serializability is too expensive to enforce. We introduce a new caching scheme (PIT) and study its effects on Quasi-TIís performance. Through simulation, we demonstrate the benefits of the proposed techniques.