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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Supporting adaptive services in a heterogeneous mobile environment
AU - Davies, Nigel
AU - Blair, Gordon S.
AU - Cheverst, Keith
AU - Friday, Adrian
AU - EPSRC (Funder)
A2 - Cabrera, Luis-Felipe
A2 - Satyanarayanan, Mahadev
PY - 1994/12
Y1 - 1994/12
N2 - Future computer environments will include mobile computers which will either be disconnected, weakly interconnected by low-speed wireless networks such as GSM (global system for mobile communications), or fully interconnected by high-speed networks ranging from Ethernet to ATM (asynchronous transfer mode). While the transition between networks is currently a heavyweight operation, we believe that developments in network interface technology will soon enable mobile computers to dynamically select their network service based on cost and performance requirements. Such flexibility, coupled with the inherent unreliability of mobile communications, means that system services and applications will be subject to rapid and massive fluctuations in the quality-of-service provided by their underlying communications infrastructure. In this paper, we discuss the design of a distributed systems platform to support the development of services which are able to tolerate this environment by dynamically adapting to changes in the available communications quality-of-service.
AB - Future computer environments will include mobile computers which will either be disconnected, weakly interconnected by low-speed wireless networks such as GSM (global system for mobile communications), or fully interconnected by high-speed networks ranging from Ethernet to ATM (asynchronous transfer mode). While the transition between networks is currently a heavyweight operation, we believe that developments in network interface technology will soon enable mobile computers to dynamically select their network service based on cost and performance requirements. Such flexibility, coupled with the inherent unreliability of mobile communications, means that system services and applications will be subject to rapid and massive fluctuations in the quality-of-service provided by their underlying communications infrastructure. In this paper, we discuss the design of a distributed systems platform to support the development of services which are able to tolerate this environment by dynamically adapting to changes in the available communications quality-of-service.
U2 - 10.1109/MCSA.1994.513475
DO - 10.1109/MCSA.1994.513475
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 0-8186-6345-6
SP - 153
EP - 157
BT - Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 1994. Proceedings.
PB - IEEE
T2 - Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (MCSA)
Y2 - 8 December 1994 through 9 December 1994
ER -