SyncML®: Synchronizing and Managing Your Mobile Data

Summary

Clearly, the one-to-one and the many-to-one topology are abundantly more common in the context of day-to-day commercial applications than the many-to-many topology. Moreover, the many-to-many topology can be indirectly (but inefficiently) achieved by designating one device as a server and stipulating that the other devices synchronize with that server and hence indirectly synchronize with each other via that server. Implementing the many-to-one topology (which includes the one-to-one model) is conceptually simpler and the resulting implementations are orders of magnitude simpler than the ones that support many-to-many topology. In the many-to-many model, complex data structures such as “version vectors” need to be associated with data ...