Transaction Processing in Mobile, Heterogeneous Database Systems

As technological advances are made in software and hardware, the feasibility of accessing information "any time, anywhere" is becoming a reality. Furthermore, the diversity and amount of information available to a given user is increasing at a rapid rate. In a mobile computing environment, a potentially large number of users may simultaneously access the global data; therefore, there is a need to provide a means to allow concurrent management of transactions. Current multidatabase concurrency control schemes do not address the limited bandwidth and frequent disconnection associated with wireless networks. This paper proposes a new hierarchical concurrency control algorithm. The proposed concurrency control algorithm--v-lock--uses global locking tables created with semantic information contained within the hierarchy. The locking tables are used to serialize global transactions, detect and remove global deadlocks. Additionally, data replication, at the mobile unit, is used to l...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: TKDE
• Authors: James B. Lim, Ali R. Hurson
• Keywords: Concurrency Control, Limited Bandwidth, Local Autonomy Restrictions, TKDE 2002