Study on Optimization of three Way Merging Algorithm for Mobile Users

Abstract

Mobile Computing is a new paradigm aimed at providing users with constant network connectivity regardless of their location. Computer networking removed the physical barrier between computers, allowing users connected to the system from one computer to access resources on another. This paved the path for distributed computing, in which a group of connected computers works together to achieve a common goal. However, the access points to such a distributed system were still tethered machines and a user did not have the flexibility to move while accessing such a system. Mobile computing expands distributed computing in the direction of making a system's services available to a user regardless of their location or, more significantly, their location changes. Wireless networking removed the requirement to be linked to a cable, static infrastructure in order to benefit from distributed system services. A cable infrastructure of static hosts (representing a conventional distributed system) connects areas of wireless coverage ('cells') to mobile computers in a distributed system with mobile hosts.