Optimistic Replication - YASUSHI SAITO & MARC SHAPIRO, 2005 http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/papers/Optimistic_Replication_Computing_Surveys_2005-

Optimistic Replication - YASUSHI SAITO & MARC SHAPIRO, 2005 http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/papers/Optimistic_Replication_Computing_Surveys_2005-03_cameraready.pdf http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/papers/Optimi... Why: RPC and its ilk make a lousy model for mobile data, since mobile devices are only occasionally connected, not permanently. Similarly, in the face network and server failures, servers can be modeled as occasionally connected as well. The "replication" mindset is far more productive when dealing with those issues. The linked paper gives a broad overview of a great number of approaches to replication, and is a great way to get the lay of the land.