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From: darrell@Odin.UCSD.EDU (Darrell Long)
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Subject: Hilbert's revenge #4
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I haven't gotten a lot of response to this one, so I'll throw something in.

#4 How do you locate a mobile object in a large-scale distributed system?

Consider for example the Cellular phone network.  It is easy for a mobile
station to make a call to a fixed location (a home or business), but suppose
that our friend is driving across country and his wife wants to call him?
How does the network find a mobile station whose last known location was
San Diego but may now be in Las Vegas?

DL