A System Structure for Adaptive Mobile Applications

TL;DR

This paper presents a system architecture and methodology for adaptive mobile applications, enabling decomposition into quasi-stable scenarios to improve adaptation strategies based on QoS metrics.

Contribution

Introduces a novel system structure and methodology for adaptive mobile applications, facilitating scenario-based behavior decomposition and QoS-aware adaptation strategies.

Findings

Proposed architecture supports adaptive behavior in mobile apps.

Methodology effectively decomposes system behavior into quasi-stable scenarios.

Enhances adaptation strategies using QoS figures.

Abstract

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.