Mobility Management in Wireless Networks Data Replication Strategies and Applications

In wireless communication systems, the network keeps track of a user’s location through an up-to-date user profile stored in various databases. A user profile contains not only a user’s current location information, but also service information, such as billing and authentication. The cov- age area...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tian, Karen Q., Cox, Donald C. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2004, 2004
Edition:1st ed. 2004
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1: Introduction. 1.1. Book Outline
  • 2: Mobility Management. 2.1. Background. 2.2. Mobility Management Techniques. 2.3. Profile Replicatio. 2.4. Related Work. 2.5. Summary
  • 3: Off-Line Replication. 3.1. Related Work. 3.2. Optimization Objectives. 3.3. Replication for Unicast Replica Update (UR). 3.4. Replication for Multicast Replica Update (MR). 3.5. Comparison between UR and MR. 3.6. Summary
  • 4: On-Line Replication. 4.1. Related Work. 4.2. Edge Algorithms. 4.3. Tree Algorithms. 4.4. Implementation Issues. 4.5. Summary
  • 5: Computer Simulations. 5.1. Simulation Environment. 5.2. Off-Line Replication. 5.3. On-Line Replication. 5.4. Summary
  • References
  • Index