Mobile Computing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction to Mobile Computing

   • Tomasz Imielinski, Henry F. Korth

   Pages 1-43

3. The Parctab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment

   • Roy Want, Bill N. Schilit, Norman I. Adams, Rich Gold, Karin Petersen, David Goldberg et al.

   Pages 45-101

4. Scalable Support for Transparent Mobile Internetworking

   • David B. Johnson

   Pages 103-128

5. Location Management for Networks with Mobile Users

   • B. R. Badrinath, Tomasz Imielinski

   Pages 129-152

6. Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

   • David B. Johnson, David A. Maltz

   Pages 153-181

7. Routing Over Multi-Hop Wireless Network of Mobile Computers

   • Charles E. Perkins, Pravin Bhagwat

   Pages 183-205

8. Improving the Performance of Reliable Transport Protocols in Mobile Computing Environments

   • Ramón Cáceres, Liviu Iftode

   Pages 207-228

9. Indirect Transport Layer Protocols for Mobile Wireless Environment

   • Ajay V. Bakre, B. R. Badrinath

   Pages 229-252

10. Connecting Mobile Workstations to the Internet Over a Digital Cellular Telephone Network

    • Markku Kojo, Kimmo Raatikainen, Timo Alanko

    Pages 253-270

11. Asynchronous Video: Coordinated Video Coding and Transport for Heterogeneous Networks with Wireless Access

    • Johnathan M. Reason, Louis C. Yun, Allen Y. Lao, David G. Messerschmitt

    Pages 271-298

12. Wireless Publishing: Issues and Solutions

    • T. Imielinski, S. Viswanathant

    Pages 299-329

13. Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric Communication Environments

    • Swarup Acharya, Rafael Alonso, Michael Franklin, Stanley Zdonik

    Pages 331-361

14. Application Design for Wireless Computing

    • Terri Watson

    Pages 363-373

15. Mobisaic: An Information System for a Mobile Wireless Computing Environment

    • Geoffrey M. Voelker, Brian N. Bershad

    Pages 375-395

16. Providing Location Information in a Ubiquitous Computing Environment

    • Mike Spreitzer, Marvin Theimer

    Pages 397-423

17. Unix for Nomads: Making Unix Support Mobile Computing

    • Michael Bender, Alexander Davidson, Clark Dong, Steven Drach, Anthony Glenning, Karl Jacob et al.

    Pages 425-448

18. Scheduling for Reduced CPU Energy

    • Mark Weiser, Brent Welch, Alan Demers, Scott Shenker

    Pages 449-471

19. Storage Alternatives for Mobile Computers

    • Fred Douglis, Ramón Cáceres, M. Frans Kaashoek, P. Krishnan, Kai Li, Brian Marsh et al.

    Pages 473-505

20. Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System

    • James J. Kistler, M. Satyanarayanan

    Pages 507-535

The rapid development of wireless digital communication technology has cre­ ated capabilities that software systems are only beginning to exploit. The falling cost of both communication and of mobile computing devices (laptop computers, hand-held computers, etc. ) is making wireless computing affordable not only to business users but also to consumers. Mobile computing is not a "scaled-down" version of the established and we- studied field of distributed computing. The nature of wireless communication media and the mobility of computers combine to create fundamentally new problems in networking, operating systems, and information systems. Further­ more, many of the applications envisioned for mobile computing place novel demands on software systems. Although mobile computing is still in its infancy, some basic concepts have been identified and several seminal experimental systems developed. This book includes a set of contributed papers that describe these concepts and sys­ tems. Other papers describe applications that are currently being deployed and tested. The first chapter offers an introduction to the field of mobile computing, a survey of technical issues, and a summary of the papers that comprise sub­ sequent chapters. We have chosen to reprint several key papers that appeared previously in conference proceedings. Many of the papers in this book are be­ ing published here for the first time. Of these new papers, some are expanded versions of papers first presented at the NSF-sponsored Mobidata Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Information Systems, held at Rutgers University on Oct 31 and Nov 1, 1994.

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• Rutgers University, USA

  Tomasz Imielinski

• AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

  Henry F. Korth

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