Disseminating Updates on Broadcast Disks

Summary: Extends Broadcast Disks to support updates, addressing server–client asymmetry in wireless and broadcast settings. Analyzes update models and currency–performance tradeoffs; proposes lightweight mechanisms for immediate updates via propagation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hcf277ded3d84a85c
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 5.4633791e-05
Overall Rank: 7,734 | 48.02%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Swarup Acharya (Brown University)
2. Michael Franklin (University of Maryland)
3. Stanley Zdonik (Brown University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{acharya_vldb96,
        title = {{Disseminating Updates on Broadcast Disks}},
        author = {Acharya, Swarup and Franklin, Michael and Zdonik, Stanley},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '96},
        pages = {354},
        year = {1996}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,992	Balancing Push and Pull for Data Broadcast	1997	SIGMOD	7.7700264e-05
9,278	Efficient Concurrency Control for Broadcast Environments	1999	SIGMOD	5.2032182e-05
13,204	Exploiting Versions for Handling Updates in Broadcast Disks	1999	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
19	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00058759613
810	The Datacycle Architecture for Very High Throughput Database Systems	1987	SIGMOD	0.00013750892
1,817	Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric Communication Environments	1995	SIGMOD	9.5704315e-05
1,878	Sleepers and Workaholics: Caching Strategies in Mobile Environments	1994	SIGMOD	9.4495293e-05
2,493	Energy Efficient Indexing On Air	1994	SIGMOD	8.3856731e-05
2,928	The Effect of Skewed Data Access on Buffer Hits and Data Contention in a Data Sharing Environment	1990	VLDB	7.8396007e-05
8,543	The Double Life of the Transaction Abstraction: Fundamental Principle and Evolving System Concept	1995	VLDB	5.3184525e-05

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