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Handbook on Data Management in Information Systems

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Mobile computing has emerged as a convergence of wireless communications and computer technologies. Mobile computing systems can be viewed as a specialized class of distributed systems where some nodes may disengage from joint distributed operations, move freely in the physical space and re-connect to a possibly different segment of a computer network at a later stage in order to resume suspended activities. Migrating applications, mobile distributed objects and agents are also frequently associated with mobile computing. Mobile computing platforms offer new opportunities at the system software and application levels and pose many research challenges. This chapter addresses data management issues in mobile computing environments. It analyzes the past and present of mobile computing, wireless networks, mobile computing devices, architectures for mobile computing, and advanced applications for mobile computing platforms. It covers extensively weak connectivity and disconnections in distributed systems as well as broadcast delivery. The chapter also lists available (at the time of writing) online mobile computing resources.

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Bukhres, O., Pitoura, E., Zaslavsky, A. (2003). Mobile Computing. In: Błażewicz, J., Kubiak, W., Morzy, T., Rusinkiewicz, M. (eds) Handbook on Data Management in Information Systems. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24742-5_10

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