Eleventh Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing
Smart Data Caching in Archeological Wireless Applications: the PAST Solution
Genova, Italy
February 05-February 07
ISBN: 0-7695-1875-3
Wireless computing, because of the limited memory capacity of the palmtops, forces to separate data (stored on a remote server) from the application (running on the palmtops) that uses them. In applications working on data that frequently change, several kilobytes of data are exchanged between the server and the client palmtops. It is fairly evident that a similar tight coupling may easily saturate the network bandwidth when many palmtops are used in parallel, thus degrading the performances of the application running on it. This paper shows a way to reduce the waste of bandwidth by exploiting at the best the palmtop memory to deal with data caching. The proposed smart data caching is based on context information. We have also applied our method and analyzed its features in a specific application: electronic guide to archeological sites in the PAST EC IT project.
Index Terms:
Wireless, Caching, Context Awareness, Location Awareness
Citation:
Massimo Ancona, Walter Cazzola, Daniele D?Agostino, "Smart Data Caching in Archeological Wireless Applications: the PAST Solution," pdp, pp.532, Eleventh Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2003