MOBILE COMPUTING
edited by
Tomasz Imielinski
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Henry F. Korth
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER
SCIENCE VOLUME 353
The rapid development of wireless digital communication technology has
created capabilities that software systems are only beginning to
exploit. The falling cost of both communication and mobile computing
devices (laptop computers, hand-held computers, etc.) is making
wireless computing affordable to both business users and private
consumers. Mobile computing is not a `scaled-down' version of the
established and well-studied field of distributed computing. The
nature of wireless communication media and the mobility of computers
combine to create fundamentally new problems in networking, operating
systems, and information systems. Furthermore, many of the
applications envisioned for mobile computing place novel demands on
software systems.
Although mobile computing is still in its infancy, some basic concepts
have been identified and several seminal experimental systems
developed. Mobile Computing contains chapters that describe these
concepts and systems, and the book describes applications that are
currently being deployed and tested. Mobile Computing is a valuable
reference book that may also be used as a text for a course on the
subject.
Contents and Contributors:
Preface. 1. Introduction to Mobile Computing; T. Imielinski,
H.F. Korth. 2. The PARCTAB Ubiquitous Computing Experiment; R. Want,
et al. 3. Scalable Support for Transparent Mobile Internetworking;
D.B. Johnson. 4. Location Management for Networks With Mobile Users;
B.R. Badrinath, T. Imielinski. 5. Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc
Wireless Networks; D.B. Johnson, D.A. Maltz. 6. Routing over Multi-Hop
Wireless Network of Mobile Computers; C.E. Perkins, P. Bhagwat. 7.
Improving the Performance of Reliable Transport Protocols in Mobile
Computing Environments; R. Caceres, L. Iftode. 8. Indirect Transport
Layer Protocols for Mobile Wireless Environment; A.V. Bakre,
B.R. Badrinath. 9. Connecting Mobile Workstations to the Internet Over
a Digital Cellular Telephone Network; M. Kojo, et al. 10. Asynchronous
Video: Coordinated Video Coding and transport for Heterogeneous
Networks with Wireless Access; J.M. Reason, et al. 11. Wireless
Publishing: Issues and Solutions; T. Imielinski,
S. Viswanathan. 12. Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric
Communication Environments; S. Acharya, et al. 13. Application Design
for Wireless Computing; T. Watson. 14. Mobisaic: An Information System
for a Mobile Wireless Computing Environment; G.M. Voelker,
B.N. Bershad. 15. Providing Location Information in a Ubiquitous
Computing Environment; M. Spreitzer, M. Theimer. 16. Unix for Nomads:
Making Unix Support Mobile Computing; M. Bender, et al. 17. Scheduling
for Reduced CPU Energy; M. Weiser, et al. 18. Storage Alternatives
for Mobile Computers; F. Douglis, et al. 19. Disconnected Operation
in the Coda File System; J.J. Kistler, M. Satyanarayanan.
20. Experience with Disconnected Operation in a Mobile Computing
Environment; M. Satyanarayanan, et al. 21. Mobility Support for Sales
and Inventory Applications; N. Krishnakumar, R. Jain. 22. Strategies
for Query Processing in Mobile Computing; M. Tsukamoto, et
al. 23. The Case for Wireless Overlay Networks; R.H. Katz, E.A.
Brewer. 24. The DIANA Approach to Mobile Computing;
A.M. Keller. 25. The CMU Mobile Computers and their Application for
Maintenance; A. Smailagic, D.P. Siewiorek. 26. Genesis and Advanced
Traveler Information Systems; S. Shekhar, D.-R. Liu. Index.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston
Date of publishing: January 1996
752 pp.
Hardbound
ISBN: 0-7923-9697-9
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