Fundamental Challenges in Mobile Computing,

Abstract

This paper is an answer to the question: 'What is unique and conceptually different about mobile computing?' The paper begins by describing a set of constraints intrinsic to mobile computing, and examining the impact of these constraints on the design of distributed systems. Next, it summarizes the key results of the Coda and Odyssey systems. Finally, it describes the research opportunities in five important topics relevant to mobile computing: caching metrics, semantic callbacks and validators, resource revocation, analysis of adaptation, and global estimation from local observations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA306271

Entities

People

  • Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Computational Processes
  • Mobile Computing
  • Observation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.