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Selected Bibliography
The concepts presented in this chapter can be further explored in [17, 18]
and in an article by Daniel Barbará, Mobile Computing and DatabasesA
Survey (IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 1,
Jan./Feb. 1999, pp. 108117). Reference [17] starts with a good introduc-
tion to mobile computing and presents a set of projects and systems that
studies the new problems related to mobile computing in different comput-
ing areas: networking, operating systems, and information systems. In rela-
tion to networking, it studies the mobility management, ad hoc networking
protocol, and transport-layer issues. With respect to operating systems, it
studies operating system support for mobile computing, energy-efficient
CPU scheduling, storage alternatives, and disconnected operations in file sys-
tems. And in relation to information systems, it presents the problems of
wireless access to information, application design, and so forth. Reference
[18] concentrates more on the data management issues in mobile comput-
ing, although it also has a chapter about system-level support. As well as
another good introduction to mobile computing, it presents different soft-
ware architectures and techniques for information and location management
(broadcasting, caching, replication, etc.). It finishes with some interesting
case studies. The survey is focused on research in the area of data manage-
ment in mobile computing and different techniques such as data dissemina-
tion over limited bandwidth channels, location-dependent querying of data,
advanced interfaces for mobile computers, and techniques to maintain data
consistency.
