New challenges to the database field brought about by the rapidly growing area of wireless personal communication are presented. Preliminary solutions to two of the major problems...
Location management is an essential service in mobile networks. It provides mechanisms for recording and querying location of mobile units in the network. This is needed for estab...
With the Web 2.0 trend and its participation of end-users more and more data and information services are online accessible, such as web sites, Wikis, or web services. The integra...
The explosive growth of the Internet and information devices has driven database systems to be more scaleable, available, and able to support online, mobile, and disconnected clie...
Current database management system technology is unable to provide adequate support for Nomadic Computing. Mobile applications require systems which are sufficiently lightweight an...