The Bayou Architecture: support for data sharing among mobile users

Author

Demers, Alan ; Petersen, Karin ; Spreitzer, Mike ; Ferry, David ; Theimer, Marvin ; Welch, Brent

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Lab., Xerox Palo Alto Res. Center, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

8-9 Dec 1994

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

7

Abstract

The Bayou System is a platform of replicated, highly available, variable-consistency, mobile databases on which to build collaborative applications. This paper presents the preliminary system architecture along with the design goals that influenced it. We take a fresh, bottom-up and critical look at the requirements of mobile computing applications and carefully pull together both new and existing techniques into an overall architecture that meets these requirements. Our emphasis is on supporting application-specific conflict detection and resolution and on providing application-controlled inconsistency

Keywords

client-server systems; data integrity; distributed databases; groupware; portable computers; replicated databases; wireless LAN; Bayou Architecture; application-controlled inconsistency; application-specific conflict detection; collaborative applications; data sharing; design goals; mobile computing applications; mobile users; replicated mobile databases; requirements; system architecture; wireless communication; Collaboration; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Computer science; Laboratories; Mobile computing; Modems; Personal digital assistants; Portable computers; Relational databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 1994. Proceedings., Workshop on

Conference_Location

Santa Cruz, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6345-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCSA.1994.512726

Filename

512726