Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility

In this paper we show that application-aware adaptation, a collaborative partnership between the operating system and applications, offers the most general and effective approach to mobile information access. We describe the design of Odyssey, a prototype implementing this approach, and show how it supports concurrent execution of diverse mobile applications. We identify agility as a key attribute of adaptive systems, and describe how to quantify and measure it. We present the results of our evaluation of Odyssey, indicating performance improvements up to a factor of 5 on a benchmark of three applications concurrently using remote services over a network with highly variable bandwidth.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: SOSP
• Authors: Brian Noble, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Dushyanth Narayanan, J. Eric Tilton, Jason Flinn, Kevin R. Walker
• Keywords: Application-aware Adaptation, Diverse Mobile Applications, Effective Approach, Operating System, SOSP 1997