Mobile Data Access: First International Conference, MDA'99, Hong Kong, China, December 16-17, 1999 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1748)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Data Access, MDA'99, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 1999. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 39 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on wireless networks and communications, transaction processing in mobile environments, ubiquitous information services, mobile data replication and caching, and mobility and location management. Wireless VoIP: Opportunities and Challenges....Pages 3-13 GSM Mobile Phone Based Communication of Multimedia Information: A Case Study....Pages 14-24 A Witness-Aided Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with Unidirectional Links....Pages 24-33 Assessing Opportunities for Broadband Optical Wireless Local Loops in an Unbundled Access Network....Pages 34-44 On Simulation Modeling of Information Dissemination Systems in Mobile Environments....Pages 45-57 On the Performance of Transaction Processing in Broadcast Environments....Pages 61-70 Transaction Processing in an Asymmetric Mobile Environment....Pages 71-82 Speculative Lock Management to Increase Concurrency in Mobile Environments....Pages 82-96 Optimistic Concurrency Control in Broadcast Environments: Looking Forward at the Server and Backward at the Clients....Pages 97-106 Modelling the WAP Transaction Service Using Coloured Petri Nets....Pages 109-118 Enabling Ubiquitous Database Access with XML....Pages 119-134 Design and Evaluation of an Information Announcement Mechanism for Mobile Computers....Pages 135-145 Active Rule System for Adaptive Mobile Data Access....Pages 146-155 Preserving Smooth Traffic and High Presentation QoS for VBR-Encoded Video....Pages 156-165 Peer Replication with Selective Control....Pages 169-181 Cache Coherency in Location-Dependent Information Services for Mobile Environment....Pages 182-193 An Autonomous Data Coherency Protocol for Mobile Devices....Pages 194-205 Location Management Strategies for Reducing Both Movement Cost and Locating Cost Simultaneously....Pages 209-219 Internet Mobility Support Optimized for Client Access and Its Scalable Authentication Framework....Pages 220-229 Proxy Agent Consistency Service Based on CORBA....Pages 230-239 Integrating Mobile Objects into the Wirelessly Wired World: The Need for Energy Efficient Algorithms....Pages 243-243 Databases Unplugged: Challenges in Ubiquitous Data Management....Pages 244-244

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Data Access, MDA'99, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 1999.
The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 39 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on wireless networks and communications, transaction processing in mobile environments, ubiquitous information services, mobile data replication and caching, and mobility and location management.

IP (Internet Protocol) is going to be the common platform for both data and voice/multimedia services in the near future.