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SPREE: Object Prefetching for Mobile Computers

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE (OTM 2004)

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Mobile platforms combined with large databases promise new opportunities for mobile applications. However, mobile computing devices may experience frequent communication loss while in the field. In order to support database applications, mobile platforms are required to cache portions of the available data which can speed access over slow communication channels and mitigate communication disruptions. We present a new prefetching technique for databases in mobile environments based on program analysis. SPREE generates maps of a client program’s use of structured data to be used by our prefetching runtime system. We apply SPREE in the context of mobile programming for object structured databases demonstrating an effective way to prefetch/hoard over unreliable networks with speedups up to 80% over other techniques.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

    Kristian Kvilekval & Ambuj Singh

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    Robert Meersman

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, VIC 3001, Melbourne, Australia

    Zahir Tari

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Kvilekval, K., Singh, A. (2004). SPREE: Object Prefetching for Mobile Computers. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30469-2_33

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