Name: Steve Todd
Course: CS 898T
Date: 2/17/04
Subject: Research Paper Proposal

Topic: An Overview of Wireless/Mobile File Systems

Major Goals:
1. Present characteristics which are unique to wireless/mobile file systems
and how they are dealt with within wireless/mobile applications.
2. Present an example of such a system: Andrew File System/Coda.

Scope:
Presentation of characteristics such as consistency, replication, cache,
availability, transparency, etc. and how wireless/mobile file systems deal
with them. Emphasis will be on mobile applications since this class is
limited in scope to mobile and wireless communication systems. An
example of a commonly-used system used in mobile applications, Coda, will
be presented in an overview fashion. This presentation will cover
those unique characteristics of wireless/mobile networks in regards to
dealing with shared files. 

References:
1. Braam, Peter J. The Coda Distributed File System. Carnegie Mellon
University. http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ljpaper/lj.html.
2. Spasojevic, Mirjana and M. Satyanarayanan. An Empirical Study of a
Wide-Area Distributed File System. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems,
May 1996, pp. 200-222.
3. Schiller, Jochen. Mobile Communications (2nd ed.). Addison-Wesley,
2003, pp. 375-381.
More sources will be added.