Incremental and Application Specific Hoarding for Weakly Connected Mobile Environments
Supervisor: Dr. Abdelsalam Sumi Helal, Associate Professor, University of Florida
Hoarding is one of the popular techniques for managing data in mobile environments. However, common hoarding techniques have a drawback when the network bandwidths are low and results in inefficient file hoarding. In order to be able to reintegrate and hoard efficiently in weak connectivity the concept of incremental hoarding and file prioritizing on the basis of their delta sizes was introduced. Another approach addressed, to make hoarding efficient, was by making it application specific. Experiments were conducted with email clients trying to hoard efficiently in low connection bandwidths and short connection durations. All of the above experiments were carried out within the Coda File System of CMU with focus on bettering the present hoarding mechanisms of Coda.
PublicationsMobile Data Management
A Khushraj, A Helal and J Zhang, incCoda: Incremental Hoarding and Reintegration in Mobile Environments" - Proceedings of the IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), February 2002, Nara, Japan
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Ubiquitous Data Access
A Khushraj, A Helal, J Hammer, J Zhang, A Three-tier Architecture for Ubiquitous Data Access - Proceedings of the First ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, to be held June 2001, in Beirut, Lebanon.
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