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Table of Contents
Mobile & Location-Independent Computing Symposium
Cambridge, Massachusetts
August 2-3, 1993
FILESYSTEMS AND NAMING
Disconnected Operation for AFS
Larry B. Huston, Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan
Experience with Disconnected Operation in a Mobile Environment
M. Satyanarayanan, James J. Kistler, Lily B. Mummert,
Maria. R. Ebling, Puneet Kumar, Qi Lu, Carnegie Mellon University
Using Prospero to Support Integrated Location-Independent Computing
B. Clifford Neuman, Steven Seger Augart, Shantaprasad Upasani,
University of Southern California
CONNECTIVITY
The Qualcomm CDMA Digital Cellular System
Phil Karn, Qualcomm, Inc.
An Infrared Network for Mobile Computers
Norman Adams, Bill N. Schilit, Rich Gold, Michael Tso, Roy
Want, Xerox PARC
UNIX For Nomads: Making UNIX Support Mobile Computing
Michael Bender, Alexander Davidson, Clark Dong, Steven Drach,
Anthony Glenning, Karl Jacob, Jack Jia, James Kempf, Nachiappan
Periakaruppan, Gale Snow, Becky Wong, Nomadic Systems Group, Sun
Microsystems
PROTOCOLS AND MESSAGING
A Mobile Networking System Based on Internet Protocol (IP)
Pravin Bhagwat, University of Maryland; Charles E. Perkins,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Providing Connection-Oriented Network Services to Mobile Hosts
Kimberly Keeton, Bruce A. Mah, Srinivasan Seshan, Randy H. Katz,
Domenico Ferrari, University of California at Berkeley
Agent-Mediated Message Passing for Constrained Environments
Andrew Athan, Daniel Duchamp, Columbia University
EXPERIENCE
Local Area Mobile Computing on Stock Hardware and Mostly Stock Software
Terri Watson, Brian Bershad, Carnegie Mellon University
Experiences with X in a Wireless Environment
Christopher A. Kantarjiev, Alan Demers, Ron Frederick,
Robert T. Krivacic, Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC
Customizing Mobile Applications
Bill N. Schilit, Marvin M. Theimer, Brent B. Welch, Xerox PARC
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