A Generic Adaptation Framework for Mobile Communication

E-ISSN： 1947-9239|2|1|46-57

ISSN： 1947-9220

Source： International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS), Vol.2, Iss.1, 2011-01, pp. : 46-57

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Abstract

Today, technologies are providing mobile terminals with much more powerful computational abilities. Such improvement has made it possible to run many complex applications on mobile devices. However, many of these new applications are also resource demanding. Lacking sufficient resources would cause performance failures and impact negatively on the users’ quality of experience. In order to improve this, it is important to provide the users with an easy access to specifying their requirements. It is also crucial to monitor the system resources and make corresponding adaptation immediately according to the user’s specifications. In this paper, the authors propose adaptation strategies that flexibly combine the process of monitoring and adaptation, which provides an easy way to specify user’s requirements. By tuning the quality of service, the applications’ demand on system resources is reduced, thus decreasing the chances of performance failures and improving the users’ quality of experience.