DATA SYNCHRONIZATION MODEL FOR HETEROGENEOUS MOBILE DEVICE DATABASES AND SERVER-SIDE DATABASE

Database synchronizationcan be definedas a process of establishing data equivalence
among two or more data collections. Looking at how rapid mobile devices have
evolved in terms ofvariations and sophistication, it is important to seek a solution that
can utilize their individual capacities such as CPU, memory, bandwidth and
processing power when performing similar tasks. In so doing, many research works
have opted for development of solutions which are tailored to a particular vendor or
vendor specific. For database synchronization, similar approach can 'be observed.
This approacheven though effective, requiresextra step to be done by the server since
each device type of different vendors will require special synchronization treatment.
Hence, hi this study, a model which is caied Heterogeneous Mobile Database
Synchronization Model (HMDSM) is proposed for enabling data synchronization
between the heterogeneous mobile devices' and server-side's databases, such that the
mobile devices (regardless of their individual differences) can synchronize their data
with the server-side database.