Oskari Koskimies

Using data item relationships to adaptively select data for synchronization

Though synchronization of email and PIM data to mobile devices has been a major practical concern for a long time, there has been relatively little advance in making synchronization work adaptively. We examine in this article the possibility to adapt synchronization to bandwidth and resource constraints by only synchronizing the items that are currently relevant to the user, and present initial results suggesting that item relationships are helpful for accomplishing this task.

Binary Serialization for Mobile XForms Services

We consider here the case of XForms applications on small mobile devices. The aim is to find out whether a schema-aware binary XML format is better suited to this area than generic compression applied to regular XML. We begin by limiting the potential areas of improvement through considering the features of the binary format, and then proceed to measure effects in the identified areas to determine whether a binary format would be effective.