Rover: A toolkit for mobile information access

Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 1995

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 156-171

  Joseph, Anthony D ^a   De Lespinasse, Alan F ^a   Tauber, Joshua A ^a   Gifford, David K ^a   Kaashoek, M Frans ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT-SERVER COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED OBJECT ARCHITECTURE; INTERMITTENT CONNECTIVITY; LIMITED BANDWIDTH; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS; MOBILE INFORMATION; REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL;

DYNAMIC LOADS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84883544068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/224056.224070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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