Kluwer international series on advances in database systems, 10.
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1 Introduction --;1.1 Wireless Technologies --;1.2 Wireless Architecture --;1.3 Applications --;1.4 Issues and Limitations --;2 Software Architectures --;2.1 Mobile Computing Models --;2.2 Environmental Awareness --;2.3 An Example: Web Browsing --;3 System-Level Support --;3.1 Disconnected Operation --;3.2 Weak Connectivity --;3.3 Mobility --;3.4 Failure Recovery --;4 Information Management --;4.1 Broadcast --;4.2 Caching and Broadcast --;4.3 Querying Location Data --;4.4 Other Topics --;5 Location Management --;5.1 The Location Problem --;5.2 Two-tier Schemes --;5.3 Hierarchical Schemes --;5.4 Evaluating Performance --;5.5 Concurrency and Recovery --;6 Case Studies --;6.1 Rover --;6.2 Bayou --;6.3 Coda --;6.4 WebExpress --;7 Conclusions --;References.
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We can beam this information anywhere, to mobile workers, to field engineers, to a track loading apples, to ships crossing the Oceans, to web surfers. Web technology and the Internet went even further to provide hyper-linked information access and global computing.