TUTORIAL 3

Data Management in Mobile Computing

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Madria
Department of Computer Science
University of Missouri-Rolla
Rolla, MO 65409, USA
www.umr.edu/~madrias

Most mobile technologies physically support broadcast data management mechanism and a server can take advantage of push to disseminate information to all mobile clients in its cell. On the other hand, in pull-based scheme, clients only access data when needed. These two facts introduce new mechanisms for data management different from the traditional algorithms proposed for traditional client-server distributed database systems. In this tutorial, I will discuss broadcast data management issues in a mobile environment. I will present taxonomies that categorize algorithms proposed. These taxonomies provide insights into the tradeoffs inherent in data management algorithms in mobile computing environment. I will give executive summary of the problems, proposed models and solutions and in the process I will compare and contrast existing algorithms for their merit and drawbacks. The tutorial will focus on the following topics:

  1. Broadcast Data Management Architecture
  2. Cache Consistencies and Data Replication
  3. Location Data Management
  4. Broadcasting and Data Management
  5. Transaction Management
  6. Wireless Security Issues
  7. Issues in sensor data processing and pervasive computing
  8. Location and context aware computing
Tutorial slides will be provided along with copies of the some of the papers I wrote in this area including two tutorial book chapters which appeared recently.

Who Can Attend

This tutorial is designed for academicians and researchers working in the area of wireless data processing. It is to help computer and database professionals/business analysts, such as, database and system administrators, designers, project and technical managers, people involved in planning, designing, developing, implementing and administrating wireless applications. It is also for students of computer and information science who are pursuing or planning to pursue a higher research degree.

Biography

Sanjay Kumar Madria received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India in 1995. He is an Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, at University of Missouri-Rolla, USA. Earlier he was Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. He has also held appointments at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has published more than 75 Journal and conference papers in the areas of mobile data management, web warehousing and nested transaction management. He is the co-author of a forthcoming book in the area of web warehousing by Springer. He has organized International conferences, workshops and presented tutorials in the areas of mobile data and web computing. He has given invited talks and served as panelists in National Science Foundation, USA and Swedish Research Council. He is IEEE Senior Member.