Mobility Management in Wireless Networks Data Replication Strategies and Applications /

• Main Authors: Tian, Karen Q. (Author), Cox, Donald C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2004.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computer communication systems.; Data structures (Computer science).; Computers.; Electrical engineering.; Electrical Engineering.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Computer Communication Networks.; The Computing Profession.
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In wireless communication systems, the network keeps track of a userỚ"s location through an up-to-date user profile stored in various databases. A user profile contains not only a userỚ"s current location information, but also service information, such as billing and authentication. Th...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1: Introduction. 1.1. Book Outline
• 2: Mobility Management. 2.1. Background. 2.2. Mobility Management Techniques. 2.3. Profile Replicatio. 2.4. Related Work. 2.5. Summary
• 3: Off-Line Replication. 3.1. Related Work. 3.2. Optimization Objectives. 3.3. Replication for Unicast Replica Update (UR). 3.4. Replication for Multicast Replica Update (MR). 3.5. Comparison between UR and MR. 3.6. Summary
• 4: On-Line Replication. 4.1. Related Work. 4.2. Edge Algorithms. 4.3. Tree Algorithms. 4.4. Implementation Issues. 4.5. Summary
• 5: Computer Simulations. 5.1. Simulation Environment. 5.2. Off-Line Replication. 5.3. On-Line Replication. 5.4. Summary
• References
• Index.