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1. Introduction

1.1: G. H. Forman, J. Zahorjan, "The Challenges of Mobile Computing," IEEE Computer, Vol. 27, No. 4, (April 1994), pp. 38-47
1.2: T. Imielinski and H. Korth, "Introduction to Mobile Computing", in Mobile Computing, edited by T. Imielinski and H. Korth, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, pp. 1-43
1.3: M. Satyanarayanan, "Fundamental challenges of mobile computing," ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, 1995 (PODC'95 invited lecture)
1.4: M. Weiser, "The Computer for the Twenty-First Century", Scientific American, Vol. 265, No. 3, (September 1991), pp. 94-104.

2. Mobile Networking

2.1: C. Perkins and A. Myles, "Mobile IP," technical report.
2.2: D. Johnson and D. Maltz. "Protocols for Adaptive Wireless and Mobile Networkig", IEEE Personal Communication, 3(1), February 1996
2.3: C. Perkins and D. Johnson. "Mobility Support in IPv6," Proceedings of the Second Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'96), November 1996.
2.4: M. Baker, X. Zhao, S. Cheshire, J. Stone, Stanford University, "Supporting Mobility in MosquitoNet", USENIX Winter 1996
Cellular IP: The Cellulat IP Project Web Page

3. Ad-Hoc Networking

3.1: D. Johnson and D. Maltz. "Dynamic Source Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," chapter5, pp.153-179, Mobile Computing, T. Imelinski and H. Korth, eds. Kluwer academic Publishers.

3.2: J. Broch, D. Maltz, D. Johnson, Y. Hu, and J. Jetcheva. "A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols," Proceedings of the Fourth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'98)

More recent papers collected by Subudh Shah:

4. Wireless TCP

4.1: R. Caceres, L. Iftode, "Improving the Performance of Reliable Transport Protocols in Mobile Computing Environments," chapter7, pp. 207-228, Mobile Computing, T. Imelinski and H. Korth, eds. Kluwer academic Publishers.
4.2: H. Balakrishnan, S. Seshan, R. H. Katz, "Improving Reliable Transport and Handoff Performance in Cellular Wireless Networks," ACM Wireless Networks, V 1, N 4, (December 1995), pp. 469-482.

5. Mobile Computing Models

5.1: J. Jing, A. Helal, A. Elmagarmid, "Client-Server Computing in Mobile Environments," to appear in ACM Computing Surveys, 1999.

5.2: B. Noble, M.Satyanarayanan, D. Narayanan, J. Tilton, J. Flinn, K. Walker "Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility," Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems.

5.3: M. Ebling and M. Satyanarayanan, "On the Importance of Translucence for Mobile Computing," Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, May 1998, , CO

5.4: A. Joseph and M. Kaashoek, "Building Reliable Mobile-Aware Applications using the Rover Toolkit," To appear in ACM Wireless Networks (WINET).

5.5: R. Gray, D. Kotz, S. Nog, D. Rus, and G. Cybenko, "Mobile Agents for Mobile Computing," Technical Report PCS-TR96-285, Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, May 1996.

5.6: B. Zenel and D. Duchamp, " A General Purpose Proxy Filtering Mechanism Applied to the Mobile Environment," Proceedings of the third annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Sept. 1997.

5.7 Data Dissemination:

5.7.1: S. Zdonik, M. Franklin, S. Acharya, and R. Alonso, "Are ``Disks in the Air'' Just Pie in the Sky?," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Santa Cruz, CA, December 1994

5.7.2: S. Acharya, R. Alonso, M. Franklin and S. Zdonik,"Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric Communication Environments," Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD, Conference, San Jose, CA, May 1995.

5.7.3: S. Hameed and N. Vaidya, "Log-time Algorithms for Scheduling Single and Multiple Channel Data Broadcast," Proceedings of the third annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Sept. 1997.

5.8 Client/Server Caching:

5.8.1: J. Jing, A. Elmagarmid, A. Helal, and R. Alonso, Bit-Sequences, "An Adaptive Cache Invalidation Method in Mobile Client/Server Environments," the ACM-Baltzer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Volume 2, Number 2, pp115-127, October 1997

5.8.2: H. Lei and D. Duchamp, "An analytical approach to file prefetching," USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 1997.

6. Mobile Databases

6.1: M. Dunham and A. Helal, "Mobile Computing and Databases: Anything New?", ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 24, No. 4, December 1995.
6.2: E. Pitoura, B. Bhargava, "A Framework for Providing Consistent and Recoverable Agent-Based Access to Heterogeneous Mobile Databases," ACM RECORDS, Volume 24, Number 3, September 1995.
6.3: K. Lam, M. Au and E. Chan, " Broadcast of Consistent Data to Read-Only Transactions from Mobile Clients,," Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, New Orleans, LA, Feb 1999.
6.4: A. Demers, K. Petersen, M. Spreitzer, D. Terry, M. Theimer, and B. Welch, "The Bayou Architecture: Support for Data Sharing among Mobile Users," Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Dec 1994.
6.5: M. Theimer, A. Demers, K. Peterson, M. Spreitzer, D. Terry, and B. Welch, "Dealing with Tentatie Data Values in Discconnected Work Groups," Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Dec 1994
6.6: D. K. Pradhan, P. Krishna, N. H. Vaidya,"Recovery in Mobile Environments: Design and Trade-Off Analysis," 26th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-26), June 1996.

7. Mobile Transactions and Workflow

7.1: M. Dunham, A. Helal, and S. Balakrishnan, "A Mobile Transaction Model that Captures Both the Data and Movement Behavior," the ACM-Baltzer Jounal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Volume 2, Number 2, pp149-162, October 1997.

7.2: Q. Lu and M. Satyanaranyanan, "Isolation-Only Transactions for Mobile Computing," Operating Systems Review, Volume 28, Number 2, 1994

7.3: Alonso, G., Gunthor, R., Kamath, M., Agrawal, A., El Abbadi, A. and Mohan, C. "Exotica/FMDC: A Workflow Management System for Mobile and Disconnected Clients," Distributed and Parallel Databases, Volume 4, number 3, July 1996

7.4: J. Jing, K. Huff, H. Sinha, B. Hurwitz and B. Robins, "Workflow and Application Adaptations in Mobile Environments," to apear in the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and applications, Feb 1999.

8. Mobile Applications and Services

8.1: M. Frans Kaashoek, Tom Pinckney, Joshua A. Tauber, "Dynamic Documents: Mobile Wireless Access to the WWW," Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Dec 1994

8.2: T. Whalen and James P. Black, "Adaptive Groupware for Wireless Networks," to apear in the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and applications, Feb 1999.

8.3: R. Alonso, Y. Chang and V. Mani, " Managing Video Data in Mobile Environment, " SIGMOD RECORDS, Dec 1995.

9. Simulation and Performance Evaluation Tools

9.1: N. Davies, G. Blair, K. Cheverst and A. Friday, "A Network Emulator to Support the Development of Adaptive Applications,"

9.2: D. Johnson, "The CMU Monarch Project's Wireless and Mobility Extensions to ns.

9.3: B. Nobel, M. Satyanarayanan, G. Nguyen, R. Katz, "Trace Based Mobile Network Emulation," Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM, Cannes, France, 1997.

WAVE (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)

9.4: C. Forlano, "Simulating a Mobile Internet with REAL," (download REAL)

10. Quality of Service

10.1: K. Scal and S. Singh, "Loss Profiles: A Quality of Service Measure in Mobile Computing ," appeared in ACM-Baltzer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET)

10.2: S. Singh, "Quality of Service Guarantees in Mobile Computing," to appear in the Journal of Computer Communications.

11. Emerging Standards

11.1: BlueTooth Paper. BlueTooth Home Page

11.2: The Wireless Application Protocol -- WAP (http://www.wapforum.org/). Professor Helal has a full printout of the WAP 1.0 specification draft.

11.3: WAP Forum - W3C Cooperation White Paper

11.4: Compact HTML for Small Information Appliances

11.5: Mobile Network Computer Reference Specification

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