Authors:
David C. C. Ong
1
;
Rytis Sileika
1
;
Souheil Khaddaj
1
and
Radouane Oudrhiri
2
Affiliations:
1
Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, Kingston University, United Kingdom
;
2
Systonomy Ltd, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Database management systems, Database reliability, Mobile communication.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Data Warehouses and OLAP
;
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Enterprise Resource Planning
;
Enterprise Software Technologies
;
Mobile Databases
;
Multimedia Database Applications
;
Object-Oriented Database Systems
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
A mobile messaging revolution for the mobile phone industry started with the introduction of the Short Messaging Service (SMS), which is limited to 160 characters of conventional text. This revolution has become more significant with the additional improvements in mobile devices. They have become relatively powerful with extra resources such as additional memory capacity and innovative features such as colour screen, photo camera, etc. Now Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) takes full advantage of these capabilities by providing longer messages with embedded sound, image and video streaming. This service presents a new challenge to mobile platform architects particularly in the data management area where the size of each MMS message could be up to 100,000 bytes long. This combined with a high volume of requests managed by these platforms which may well exceeded 250,000 requests per second, means that the need to evaluate competing data management systems has become essential. This pa
per presents an evaluation of SMS and MMS platforms using different data management systems and recommends the best data management strategies for these platforms.
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