Handling Client Mobility and Intermittent Connectivity in Mobile Web Accesses
Purushottam Kulkarni8
, Prashant Shenoy8
and Krithi Ramamritham8 
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Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Abstract
Wireless devices are being increasingly used to access data on the web. Since intermittent connectivity and client mobility
are inherent in such environments, in this paper, we examine the impact of these factors on coherent dissemination of dynamic
web data to wireless devices. We introduce the notion of eventual-delta consistency, and in the context of push and pull-based
dissemination propose (i) buffering techniques at the proxy to mask the effects of client disconnections and (ii) application-level
handoff algorithms to handle client mobility. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates that push is better suited to handle
client disconnections due to its lower message overhead and better fidelity, while pull is better suited to handle client
mobility due to its lower handoff overheads.
This research was supported n part by NSF grants CCR-0098060, EIA-0080119 and CCR- 0219520.
Also with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.
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