Server location in mobile computing

Author

Mateus, Geraldo R. ; Loureiro, Antonio A F ; Rodrigues, Ricardo C. ; Goussevskaia, Olga

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

839

Abstract

Mobile computing will continue to widen as the world of computing increasingly becomes the world of access to network services and resources. We study the problem of given a network comprised of users (in our case mobile) and a set of servers that provide a service, we are interested in finding an association between users and servers that minimizes the cost to access the servers in the network. We present the mathematical formulation of this problem and a user mobility model that is used to perform some experiments. This is a initial step towards studying this problem that will be very important in a mobile setting

Keywords

land mobile radio; mobile computing; network servers; mobile computing; network resources; network services; server access cost minimisation; server location; user mobility model; Computer networks; Costs; Electronic mail; Mathematical model; Mobile computing; Network servers; Personal digital assistants; Web and internet services; Web server; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Confernce, 2000. WCNC. 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6596-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2000.903965

Filename

903965