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Summary: The VLDB Journal (2008) 17:11431164
DOI 10.1007/s00778-007-0055-0
REGULAR PAPER
A survey of data replication techniques for mobile ad hoc
network databases
Prasanna Padmanabhan · Le Gruenwald ·
Anita Vallur · Mohammed Atiquzzaman
Received: 22 April 2006 / Revised: 14 November 2006 / Accepted: 29 March 2007 / Published online: 30 May 2008
© Springer-Verlag 2008
Abstract A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a network
that allows mobile servers and clients to communicate in the
absence of a fixed infrastructure. MANET is a fast grow-
ing area of research as it finds use in a variety of applica-
tions. In order to facilitate efficient data access and update,
databases are deployed on MANETs. These databases that
operate on MANETs are referred to as MANET databas-
es. Since data availability in MANETs is affected by the
mobility and power constraints of the servers and clients,
data in MANETs are replicated. A number of data replication
techniques have been proposed for MANET databases. This
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