A three-tier architecture for ubiquitous data access

Author

Helal, Sumi ; Hammer, Joachim ; Zhang, Jinsuo ; Khushraj, Abhinav

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

177

Lastpage

180

Abstract

We present a three-tier architecture of middleware that addresses challenges facing accessibility, availability, and consistency of data in mobile environments. The architecture supports the automatic hoarding of data from multiple, heterogeneous sources into possibly a variety of different mobile devices. The middle tier enables the automation of synchronization tasks in both connected mode (following disconnection) and weakly connected mode, where only intelligent and effective synchronization can be used in the presence of a low-bandwidth network. We present the three-tier architecture based on the Coda file system

Keywords

client-server systems; data integrity; distributed databases; mobile computing; software architecture; synchronisation; Coda file system; connected mode; data accessibility; data availability; data consistency; low-bandwidth network; middleware; mobile computing; synchronization; three-tier architecture; ubiquitous data access; weakly connected mode; Automation; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Data warehouses; Intelligent networks; Middleware; Mobile computing; Personal digital assistants; Pervasive computing; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Systems and Applications, ACS/IEEE International Conference on. 2001

Conference_Location

Beirut

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1165-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AICCSA.2001.933971

Filename

933971