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Mobile Computing

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Editors:
  1. Tomasz Imielinski

    1. Rutgers University, USA

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  2. Henry F. Korth

    1. AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 353)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rutgers University, USA

    Tomasz Imielinski

  • AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

    Henry F. Korth

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