A mechanism for replicated data consistency in mobile computing environments
José Maria Monteiro, Ângelo Brayner, Sérgio Lifschitz · 2007
Mobile computing allows for the development of new and sophisticated database applications. Such applications require the reading of current and consistent data. In order to improve data availability, increase performance and maximize throughput, data replication is used. However, due to inherent limitations in mobile and other loosely-coupled environments, the concurrency control and replica control mechanisms must be revisited. This paper proposes a new protocol that guarantees the consistency of replicated data in a mobile computing environment, while provide high data availability and ensure an eventual replica convergence towards a strongly consistent state.