Performance Analysis of Algorithms for Supporting Disconnected Write Operations in Wireless Web Environments
Abstract
A mobile user may voluntarily disconnect itself from the web server
to save battery life and also to avoid the high communication price.
To allow web pages to be updated while the mobile user
is disconnected from the web server, updates can be staged in the
mobile unit and propagated back to the web server
upon reconnection. In this thesis, we investigate
methods for supporting disconnected write operations and
develop a performance model which helps identify the optimal
length of the disconnection period under which the cost of update
propagation is minimized.
We validate the analytic model with simulation in the thesis.
We also show how the result can be applied to real-time web applications
with a deadline requirement to propagate updates of web pages.
The analysis result is particularly applicable to web applications which
allow wireless mobile users to modify web contents while on the go.
The algorithms that we have developed can be generally applied to other
data items such as files and databases.
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