TY  - JOUR
AU  - Sleit, Azzam 
AU  - AlMobaideen, Wesam 
AU  - Al-Areqi, Samih 
AU  - Yahya, Abdulaziz 
PY  - 2007
TI  - A Dynamic Object Fragmentation and Replication Algorithm In Distributed Database Systems 
JF  - American Journal of Applied Sciences
VL  - 4
IS  - 8
DO  - 10.3844/ajassp.2007.613.618
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajassp.2007.613.618
AB  - This paper proposes an enhancement for the ADRW algorithm to achieve dynamic fragmentation and object allocation in distributed databases.  The algorithm adapts to the changing patterns of object requests with the objective to dynamically adjust the allocation schemes of objects in order to minimize the total servicing cost of all requests.  Objects may be replicated or fragmented depending on patterns of reads and writes. Qualitative analysis was used to characterize the performance of the enhanced algorithm.