Mobility management in wireless networks : data replication strategies and applications /

This timely book is a comprehensive treatment of managing mobility in wireless networks. Significant new insight is also provided into solutions to file allocation problems, specifically data replication, faced in distributed database systems by Computer Scientists. Some of the solutions are applica...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tian, Karen Q.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cox, Donald C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2004]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1: Introduction. 1.1. Book Outline
  • 2: Mobility Management. 2.1. Background. 2.2. Mobility Management Techniques. 2.3. Profile Replicatio. 2.4. Related Work. 2.5. Summary
  • 3: Off-Line Replication. 3.1. Related Work. 3.2. Optimization Objectives. 3.3. Replication for Unicast Replica Update (UR). 3.4. Replication for Multicast Replica Update (MR). 3.5. Comparison between UR and MR. 3.6. Summary
  • 4: On-Line Replication. 4.1. Related Work. 4.2. Edge Algorithms. 4.3. Tree Algorithms. 4.4. Implementation Issues. 4.5. Summary
  • 5: Computer Simulations. 5.1. Simulation Environment. 5.2. Off-Line Replication. 5.3. On-Line Replication. 5.4. Summary
  • References
  • Index.