A User-Centered Approach to Active Replica Management in Mobile Environments

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1606-1619

  Wu, Shiow Yang ^a   Chang, Yu Tse ^b  

^a NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAITRA Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

data dependencies; Dynamic replication; mobile data management; user profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008579580     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2006.158     Document Type: Article

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