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Qing Li City University of Hong Kong
Xiang Li City University of Hong Kong
Jian Zhai City University of Hong Kong
Liu Wenyin City University of Hong Kong
Symposium on Applied Computing archive
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Nicosia, Cyprus
SESSION: Mobile computing and applications (MCA)
Pages: 1196 - 1200
Year of Publication: 2004
ISBN:1-58113-812-1
Abstract:
Mobile computing has been studied in the past few years on many respects: adaptive application, mobility model, data access and so on. However, most research aim at a general computing framework but not focus on a specific device, for example, mobile phone. Mobile phones are special due to some constraints compared with other devices and they currently serve as no more than passive terminals to a large extent. At the same time, mobile phones are probably the most popular device today. This paper describes an operative resource sharing model in the context of MIRES - a Mobile Information Resource Exchange System which facilitates convenient resource sharing among mobile phones. Techniques from distributed database systems are combined with such wireless technologies as GPRS and J2ME. With the versatile facilities of MIRES, a mobile phone user can easily share his/her personal resources or get others' resources at his/her own will anytime and anywhere.
My Discussion
The ideas behind the infrastructure are intruiging -- basically creating repositories that are mirror images of the resources stored on the phone, and then allowing these images to referr to resources on other mirror images and then updating the phones -- but no case is made why this infrastructure is optimized or specific to mobile phones. The writers claim that it is in the beginning of the paper, and it would be interesting to see how, but they just state the structure of the repositories and the available operations, not how enables ease-of-use on mobile phones. Their infrastructure does acknowledge and work with the fact that connections are not stable or always on.
Qing Li City University of Hong Kong
Xiang Li City University of Hong Kong
Jian Zhai City University of Hong Kong
Liu Wenyin City University of Hong Kong
Symposium on Applied Computing archive
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Nicosia, Cyprus
SESSION: Mobile computing and applications (MCA)
Pages: 1196 - 1200
Year of Publication: 2004
ISBN:1-58113-812-1
Abstract:
Mobile computing has been studied in the past few years on many respects: adaptive application, mobility model, data access and so on. However, most research aim at a general computing framework but not focus on a specific device, for example, mobile phone. Mobile phones are special due to some constraints compared with other devices and they currently serve as no more than passive terminals to a large extent. At the same time, mobile phones are probably the most popular device today. This paper describes an operative resource sharing model in the context of MIRES - a Mobile Information Resource Exchange System which facilitates convenient resource sharing among mobile phones. Techniques from distributed database systems are combined with such wireless technologies as GPRS and J2ME. With the versatile facilities of MIRES, a mobile phone user can easily share his/her personal resources or get others' resources at his/her own will anytime and anywhere.
My Discussion
The ideas behind the infrastructure are intruiging -- basically creating repositories that are mirror images of the resources stored on the phone, and then allowing these images to referr to resources on other mirror images and then updating the phones -- but no case is made why this infrastructure is optimized or specific to mobile phones. The writers claim that it is in the beginning of the paper, and it would be interesting to see how, but they just state the structure of the repositories and the available operations, not how enables ease-of-use on mobile phones. Their infrastructure does acknowledge and work with the fact that connections are not stable or always on.
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