Database Server Organization for Handling Mobile Clients

The use of mobile computers is gaining popularity. The number of users with laptops, notebooks is increasing and this trend is likely to continue in to the future where the number of mobile clients will far exceed the number of traditional "fixed" clients. Applications running on the mobile clients download information by periodically connecting to repositories of data stored in either databases or file systems. Such mobile clients constitute a new and different kind of work load and exhibit a different access pattern than seen in traditional client server systems. Though file systems have been modified to handle clients that can download information, disconnect, and later reintegrate, databases have not been redesigned to accommodate mobile clients. There is a need to support mobile clients in the context of client server databases This paper is about organizing the database server to take into consideration the access patterns of mobile clients. We propose a concept of hoard key whic..