Paper Info
Title
Mobile Code, Adaptive Mobile Applications, and Network Architectures
Abstract
Mobile computing is characterized by many constraints: small, slow, battery-powered portable devices, variable and low-bandwidth communication links. These constraints complicate the design of mobile information systems. In our work, mobile applications, especially ones that do intensive computation and communication (such as next-generation multi-medial PCS and UMTS applications), can be divided dynamically between the wired network and the portable device according to the mobile environment and to the availability of the resources on the device, the wireless link, and the access network. To demonstrate our idea, we developed a code mobility toolkit and experimented with a resource-intense mobile application. With potentially many users executing such applications, the scalability of our approach becomes extremely important. We will briefly discuss performance prediction models based on measurements and LQNs (layered queuing networks). Our results show that it is feasible to support many users with a single dedicated proxy server in the wireless access network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1007/3-540-45391-1_2
MATA
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile information system,low-bandwidth communication link,battery-powered portable device,resource-intense mobile application,mobile environment,portable device,access network,mobile code,mobile computing,mobile application,network architectures,wireless access network,adaptive mobile applications,mobile computer,code mobility,network architecture
Mobile technology,Mobile computing,Mobile search,Mobile station,Computer science,Public land mobile network,Computer network,Mobile database,Mobile Web,Radio access network,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1931
0302-9743
3-540-41069-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Salim Omar110.39
Xinan Zhou210.39
Thomas Kunz310.39