A System Structure for Adaptive Mobile Applications
This addresses the challenge of system stability in mobile applications for developers, but appears incremental as it builds on existing adaptation concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of designing adaptive mobile applications by introducing a system structure and methodology that decomposes non-stable systems into quasi-stable scenarios, enabling simpler and better adaptation strategies based on QoS figures.
A system structure for adaptive mobile applications is introduced and discussed, together with a compliant architecture and a prototypic implementation. A methodology is also introduced, which exploits our structure to decompose the behavior of non stable systems into a set of quasi-stable scenarios. Within each of these scenarios we can exploit the knowledge of the available QoS figures to express simpler and better adaptation strategies.