Experience with adaptive mobile applications in Odyssey
Noble, B.D. and Satyanarayanan, M.
Abstract
In this paper, we present our experience with application-aware
adaptation in the context of Odyssey, a platform for mobile
data access. We describe three applications that we have modified
to run on Odyssey - a video player, a Web browser, and a speech recognition
system. Our experience indicates that it is relatively simple to
incorporate applications into Odyssey, and that application source code
is not always essential. Although our applications were built without
knowledge of each other, Odyssey is able to run them concurrently without
interference. However, our experience also exposes important areas
of future work. Specifically, it reveals the difficulty of balancing
agility with stability in adaptation, and emphasizes the need for controlled
exposure of internal Odyssey state to users.