04441 Working Group -- Research Issues in Mobile Transactions

This document discusses three scenarios for databases with mobile clients, summarizes typical applications and requirements for each of the three scenarios, and outlines the open research issues which should be solved within each of the three scenarios. While the first scenario consists of mobile clients that are connect to a wired network, the second scenario consists of a network of mobile clients with a single-hop distance to each other but without a wired network, and the third scenario considers a network of mobile clients some of which are in multi-hop distance