Title :
Server location in mobile computing
Author :
Mateus, Geraldo R. ; Loureiro, Antonio A F ; Rodrigues, Ricardo C. ; Goussevskaia, Olga
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Abstract :
Mobile computing will continue to widen as the world of computing increasingly becomes the world of access to network services and resources. We study the problem of given a network comprised of users (in our case mobile) and a set of servers that provide a service, we are interested in finding an association between users and servers that minimizes the cost to access the servers in the network. We present the mathematical formulation of this problem and a user mobility model that is used to perform some experiments. This is a initial step towards studying this problem that will be very important in a mobile setting
Keywords :
land mobile radio; mobile computing; network servers; mobile computing; network resources; network services; server access cost minimisation; server location; user mobility model; Computer networks; Costs; Electronic mail; Mathematical model; Mobile computing; Network servers; Personal digital assistants; Web and internet services; Web server; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Confernce, 2000. WCNC. 2000 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6596-8
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.2000.903965
