PRO-MOTION
Gary D. Walborn, Panos K. Chrysanthis · 1997
In order to provide data consistency in the presence of failures and concurrency, database methods will continue to be important to the processing of shared information in a mobile computing environment.It is important, therefore, that we develop transaction processing systems that accommodate the limitations of mobile computirig, such as frequent disconnection, limited battery life, low-bandwidth communication and reduced storage capacity, so that we can migrate existing database applications to mobile environments.In this paper, motivated by these needs, we propose a mobile transaction processing system that supports disconnected transaction processing in a mobile client-server environment.The proposed system employs compacts, which encapsulate access methods, state information and consistency constraints, to allow for local management of database transactions.Finally, we discuss the basic infrastructure needed to support this transaction processing system.