From personal software to advanced systems, caching mechanisms have steadfastly been a ubiquitous means for reducing workloads. It is no surprise, then, that under the grid and clu...
This paper presents a general-purpose distributed lookup service, denoted Passive Distributed Indexing (PDI). PDI stores entries in form of (key, value) pairs in index caches loca...
Shortest path computation is one of the most common queries in location-based services that involve transportation networks. Motivated by scalability challenges faced in the mobil...
In a mobile computing system, users carrying portable devices can access database services from any location without requiring a fixed position in the networking environment. Some ...
– Maintenance of the cache consistency is a complicated issue in the wireless mobile environment. Caching of frequently accessed data items on the node can reduce the bandwidth r...