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Explore how people can store, organize, identify, locate, maintain, and safeguard their data across multiple electronic devices. Formulate a unique vision to manage personal devices, device-to-device communication, collaborative user groups, and distributed XML databases. Discover experimental applications for digital media, documents, personal databases, and device configurations. Address interoperability challenges, drivers like ultrawideband networks, and exploding portable storage capacities. Delve into projects like "Too Many Boxes" and "Distributed XML Databases," focusing on end-user management of replicated data and architectural prototyping. Join a consortium project between HIIT and HUT to research distributed XML databases for mobile devices, addressing key issues in technology, indexing, and network integration.
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Mobile Data Management Ken Rimey 1.6.2004
Mobile Data Management • How can people store, organize, identify, locate, maintain, and safeguard their data on all their various electronic devices? • Formulating a unique vision: • Personal devices, • Device-to-device communication, • Small, collaborative user groups, • Publish / Consume Collaborate, • Distributed XML database as technology core.
People • Individuals may own many devices. • They collaborate within social groups: • Family • Friends • Coworkers • They engage in various external relationships: • Service providers • Internet communities • Strangers
Data What applications should we experiment with? • Digital media? • Documents? • Personal databases (PIM)? • Device and device group configuration? • Context data? • (Maybe identifying the next killer app should not be our goal.)
Devices Broad interoperability: • Handheld devices • Home and car electronics • Personal computers • Large-scale servers • Sensors
Drivers • Ultrawideband local wireless networks? • Exploding capacity of portable storage? • The software problem? • Social trends?
Projects Two possibilities so far: Too Many Boxes – How will ordinary people manage their data? XML – Design issues in distributed XML databases for mobile devices. Too Many Boxes Utilization: DistributedXML database XML Implementation:
Too Many Boxes • End-user management of replicated data on personal devices: • Organizing and finding data. • Aggregating data for management purposes. • Controlling which devices store replicas. • Controlling automatic data synchronization. • Controlling access by other devices and people. • Combine architectural prototyping with user testing in order to develop a design that is powerful and yet easy to understand.
XML • Distributed XML databases for mobile devices. • Consortium project between HIIT and HUT. • Key research issues: • Local aspect: • Appropriate technology for small devices. • Automatic index creation based on observed queries. • Network aspect open for discussion: • XML in cellular network. • XML in wireless local area networks.