Wireless Graffiti - Data, data everywhere

Summary: Retrospective on querying and updating location-dependent data in massively distributed mobile environments. Vision of a dataspace where physical space is augmented with embedded digital information, powered by ad-hoc sensor networks, short-range wireless, and fine-grained location data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9020
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 5.5181056e-05
Overall Rank: 7,941 | 45.52%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50010-X

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Tomasz Imielinski (Rutgers University)
2. Badri Nath (Rutgers University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{imielinski_vldb02,
        title = {{Wireless Graffiti - Data, data everywhere}},
        author = {Imielinski, Tomasz and Nath, Badri},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50010-X},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50010-X},
        year = {2002}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,820	Memory Requirements for Query Execution in Highly Constrained Devices	2003	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,782	Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric Communication Environments	1995	SIGMOD	9.7735503e-05
1,835	Sleepers and Workaholics: Caching Strategies in Mobile Environments	1994	SIGMOD	9.6526423e-05
2,437	Energy Efficient Indexing On Air	1994	SIGMOD	8.580361e-05
3,397	Querying in highly mobile distributed environments	1992	VLDB	7.4470198e-05

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