Tuesday, April 28, 1998
3:00 PM (refreshments 2:45)
Room NE43-941
EECS Special Seminar
Abstract
Mobile devices and wireless networks are becoming more powerful and affordable, leading to the growing importance of mobile data access. Unfortunately, mobile environments are inherently turbulent, requiring clients to adapt their behavior in some way.
What is the nature of adaptation? Who should be responsible for it in the presence of diverse, concurrent applications? What architecture can best support this notion of adaptation?
This talk offers answers to these and related questions. It argues that adaptation is best provided by application-aware adaptation --- a collaboration between the operating system and applications. It describes the design and implementation of Odyssey, a system providing adaptive services, and three applications modified to take advantage of them: a video player, a web browser, and a speech recognition system. Evaluation results show that Odyssey can provide agile adaptive services to applications, that they benefit from these services, and that the system plays a critical role in adaptation.
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