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Campus-wide distributed library search system

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Title Campus-wide distributed library search system
 
Creator KAULAVKAR, N
SIVAKUMAR, G
 
Subject distributed databases
file servers
library automation
local area networks
 
Description The paper discusses the mechanism of accessing multiple libraries geometrically distributed in an academic institute in a uniform manner. Searching of any library item in such a system may amount to blindly querying every single participating database in the system (broadcasting the query). If the information about these databases and their holdings is kept in the form of indices distributed over a group of brokers, the queries can be forwarded to a set of appropriate databases, thus avoiding a broadcast. The proposed distributed library search system is based on the client-server model and consists of a collection of database servers which maintain the multiple library databases in the campus, brokers which hold a variety of distributed indices, and clients. This approach helps minimize the network traffic which rises otherwise due to broadcasting, and reduces the average search time. The design approach here resembles that of a heterogeneous, bottom-up distributed database design.
 
Publisher IEEE
 
Date 2009-05-08T02:29:51Z
2011-11-28T07:47:05Z
2011-12-15T09:57:09Z
2009-05-08T02:29:51Z
2011-11-28T07:47:05Z
2011-12-15T09:57:09Z
1993
 
Type Article
 
Identifier TENCON '93 : Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference on Computer, Communication, Control and Power Engineering (V1), Beijing, China, 348-351
0-7803-1233-3
10.1109/TENCON.1993.319999
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/1286
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/1286
 
Language en