Active Mobile Database Systems for Mobile Computing Environments

• MURASE Toru

  Systems and Electronics R & D Center, Sumitomo Electric Industries,Ltd.

• TSUKAMOTO Masahiko

  Dept. of Information Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University

• NISHIO Shojiro

  Dept. of Information Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University

抄録

In recent years, the rapid advancements of wireless communication technology and computer down-sizing technology have enabled users to utilize computing resources anywhere in the computer nework. New applications constructed on the mobile database system are becoming popular. However, the current database systems do not provide special facilities for specific update operations in a mobile computing environment. Moreover, due to the lack of a common data handling method and a mutual communication mechanism, varieties in implementations may cause applications to be incompatible with each other. In this paper, we take up the issue of data handling, in a mobile computing environment, and propose an active mobile database system(AMDS) to solve this issue. First, we review the difficulties of dynamic update of databases in a mobile computing environment, and provide a basic concept of AMDS as a solution for these difficulties. In order to construct an AMDS, we focus on asynchronous events such as the appearance and disappearance of a mobile computer in a wireless communication cell. Then we provide a facility to specify the hehavior of each system in Event-Condition-Action(ECA) rules in the same way as normal active database systems. Moreover, we show the architecture and the design of our implementation of AMDS. And, finally AMDS can be easily implemented as a common database infrastructure and work well on heterogeneous systems through indoor experiments.

収録刊行物

• IEICE transactions on information and systems

  IEICE transactions on information and systems 81 (5), 427-433, 1998-05-25

  一般社団法人電子情報通信学会

キーワード

• mobile computing
• active database
• ECA rule
• mobile database

詳細情報

• CRID: 1573105977194309760
• NII論文ID: 110003209981
• NII書誌ID: AA10826272
• ISSN: 09168532
• 本文言語コード: en
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