Resource conservation in a mobile transaction system

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 299-311

  Lu, Qi ^b   Satyanarayanan, Mahadev ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coda File System; Disconnected operation; Distributed file systems; Mobile computing; Performance evaluation; Resource management; Transaction

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FILE ORGANIZATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CODA FILE SYSTEM; ISOLATION ONLY TRANSACTION (IOT) MECHANISM; MOBILE FILE ACCESS; MOBILE TRANSACTION SYSTEM;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031095195     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.580426     Document Type: Article

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