Document Archiving, Replication and Migration Container for Mobile Web Users

TL;DR

This paper presents a Portable File System wrapper to facilitate document archiving, replication, and migration for mobile web users, addressing data access challenges across varying networks and device mobility.

Contribution

It introduces a novel encapsulated data access method via PFS, with an implementation and performance analysis for mobile web document access.

Findings

PFS improves data access in mobile environments

The system demonstrates acceptable performance levels

Applicable to various mobile data access scenarios

Abstract

With the increasing use of mobile workstations for a wide variety of tasks and associated information needs, and with many variations of available networks, access to data becomes a prime consideration. This paper discusses issues of workstation mobility and proposes a solution wherein the data structures are accessed in an encapsulated form - through the Portable File System (PFS) wrapper. The paper discusses an implementation of the Portable File System, highlighting the architecture and commenting upon performance of an experimental system. Although investigations have been focused upon mobile access of WWW documents, this technique could be applied to any mobile data access situation.