Forwarding Pointers for Efficient Location Management in Distributed Mobile Environments

Abstract

A search-update occurs after a successful search, when the location information corresponding to the searched mobile host is updated at some hosts. This paper proposes various strategies for search-updates. It was noticed that performing search-updates significantly reduced the search costs with very little cost to pay for updates (upon moves and searches).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA637102

Entities

People

  • Dillip K. Pradhan
  • N. H. Vaidya
  • P. Krishna

Organizations

  • Texas A&M University

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cellular Networks
  • Communication Networks
  • Compression
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Crossings
  • Data Transmission
  • Environment
  • High Density
  • Mobile Communications
  • Mobile Computing
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Architecture
  • Networks
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

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  • Computer science

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