A breakthrough sourcebook to the challenges and solutions for mobile database systems This text enables readers to effectively manage mobile database systems (MDS) and data dissemination via wireless channels. workable solutions to key challenges in wireless information management are presented throughout the text. After an introductory chapter that includes important milestones in the history and development of mobile data processing, the text provides information, tools and resources needed for MDS management, including: * The basics of wireless communication * Location and handoff management * The basics of conventional database management systems and why the approach is not adequate for mobile databases * Concurrency control mechanism schemes * Data processing and mobility * Transaction management * Mobile database recovery schemes * Data dissemination via wireless channels Case studies and examples are used freely to help others understand and visualize complex concepts.