Evaluation of transmission requirements in distributed database access

ABSTRACT

The problem of designing global applications in a Distributed Database is considered, and a multilevel model is developed in order to evaluate different access strategies. File manipulation operations are considered with respect to their possibility of distributed execution and their transmission requirements are defined. The need of an analysis of data is shown in order to quantitatively evaluate costs and delays of transmission operations.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
analysis of data, computer networks, correspondences analysis, distributed access, distributed applications design, distributed databases, distribution constraints, distribution strategy, operator tree, transmission strategy