A Programming Interface for Application-Aware Adaptation in Mobile Computing.
Brian D. Noble, Morgan N. Price, M. Satyanarayanan · 1995
Mobile clients face wide variations in network conditions and local resource availability when accessing remote data.Coping with this uncertainty requires the ability to retrieve and present data at varying degrees of fidelity.In this paper we present application-aware adaptation as a solution to this prob- lem.The essence of our solution is a collaborative partnership between applications and the operating system.We describe a preliminary design of the Odyssey API for application-aware adaptation and explain how it is used in accessing video and map data on mobile clients.