Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility
Brian D. Noble, M. Satyanarayanan, Dushyanth Narayanan, James Eric Tilton,
Jason Flinn, Kevin R. Walker
Abstract
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.