Design Considerations for Mobile Client-Server Database Applications

  • Authors:
  • Wai Gen Yee;Shamkant B. Navathe

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IMWS '01 Revised Papers from the NSF Workshop on Developing an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the impact of wirelessness on the client-server model of database usage. Given the potential range of wireless connectivity, we envision applications involving hundreds or thousands of clients across a large geographic area. The focus of our work is partially replicated mobile databases that are connected and synchronized only intermittently. This is the prevalent architecture in sales automation and has applications in real estate, financial advising, and insurance. We take up the issues of synchronization performance and scalability, and describe the impact of mobility on server, network, and client design. A survey of relevant research is used to motivate our discussion.