Mobile computing with the Rover toolkit

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 337-352

  Joseph, Anthony D ^a,b   Tauber, Joshua A ^a,b   Kaashoek, M Frans ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caching; Distributed objects; Distributed systems; Mobile code; Mobile computing; Operating systems; Remote procedure call; Replication; Software libraries; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE ROVER;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031096753     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.580429     Document Type: Article

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