Transaction Processing in a Mobile, Multi-Database Environment

Current distributed and multi-database systems are designed to allow timely and reliable access to large amounts of data distributed at different locations. Changes in current technology now allow users to access this data via a wide variety of devices through a diverse communication medium. A mobile data access system is an environment in which a wireless-mobile computing environment is superimposed upon a multi-database environment in order to realize “anywhere, anytime” access capability. As a potentially large number of users may siultaneously access the available data, there are several issues involved in the ability to concurrently manage transactions. Current multi-database concurrency control schemes do not efficiently manage these accesses because they do not address the limited bandwidth and frequent disconnections associated with wirelessnetworks.