A study of autonomous data coherency protocol for mobile devices

Author

Kuroda, Masahiro ; Sakakura, Takashi ; Watanabe, Takashi ; Mizuno, Tadanori ; Shimotsuma, Yoshiki

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kanagawa, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

250

Lastpage

256

Abstract

An optimistic consistency scheme has been established with respect to data consistency and availability in distributed systems. Wireless networks are becoming popular in data communication and suitable for data sharing among users using multicast capability, but have hidden node problems. This paper proposes a simple data coherency protocol for mobile devices that has less data traffic in data collaboration using a multicast communication feature and is capable of automatic recovery from unpredictable disconnection, such as hidden node problems, by a data versioning scheme using a version vector and update log management. We evaluated the efficiency of data sharing over multicast communication and the recovery cost from failure caused by hidden nodes and confirmed the efficiency of the protocol

Keywords

configuration management; data communication; data integrity; mobile computing; mobile radio; multicast communication; protocols; automatic recovery; autonomous data coherency protocol; availability; data collaboration; data communication; data consistency; data sharing; data versioning scheme; distributed systems; mobile devices; multicast communication; optimistic consistency scheme; unpredictable disconnection; update log management; version vector; wireless networks; Collaboration; Mobile computing; Multicast communication; Multicast protocols; Peer to peer computing; Telecommunication traffic; Transport protocols; Wireless application protocol; Wireless communication; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 1999. Proceedings. Eight International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5794-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.1999.805527

Filename

805527