Wmcsa '99: 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications : February 25-26, 1999 New Orleans, Louisana

Contains 12 presentations of research papers on computing and networking from the February 1999 meeting. The six computing papers cover mobility tools and applications, and mobile workflow and databases. Example topics are adaptive groupware for wireless networks, disseminating tourist information in the GUIDE system, and broadcast of consistent data to read-only transactions from mobile clients. The six networking papers cover protocols and handoffs, and ad-hoc networks and multicast. Example topics are TCP performance in wireless multi-hop networks, ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing, and location-based multicast algorithms. No subject index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.