Communications and consistency in mobile file systems

P. Honeyman, L.B. Huston
1995 IEEE personal communications  
To overcome availability, latency, bandwidth, and cost barriers of mobile networks, mobile clients of distributed file systems switch between connected and disconnected modes of operation. Lying between these are modes of operation that refine the consistency semantics of cached files, allowing a mobile client to select a mode appropriate for the the prevailing network conditions. Clients can take advantage of network opportunities unsuitable for connected operation, obtaining improved
more » ... ce, more effective sharing, and more stringent consistency guarantees as a result. This article will appear in IEEE Personal Communications, special issue on mobile computing (December 1995).
doi:10.1109/98.475987 fatcat:qf7frtz4ybdnjdvhtr26jl6tm4