ACM Computing Surveys 28A(4), December 1996, http://www.cs.duke.edu/~carla/SatyaEllisIO/, Copyright © 1996 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. See the permissions statement below.

Carla Schlatter Ellis

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Abstract: Mobility exacerbates the tension between autonomy and interdependence that is characteristic of all distributed systems. Any viable approach to mobile computing must strike a balance between these competing concerns by using application-specific information to influence resource management decisions. To function successfully as they move through a dynamically changing environment, mobile elements must not only exploit application sematics but also be adaptive. We advocate application-aware adaptation in which there exists a collaborative partnership between applications and the system. This approach permits individual applications to determine how best to adapt, but preserves the ability of the system to monitor resources and to enforce allocation decisions.

Categories and Subject Descriptors: C.2.4 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Distributed Systems - Distributed applications; D.4.4 [Operating Systems]: Communications Management - Input/Output, Network communication; D.4.2 [Operating Systems]: File Systems Management - Distributed File Systems; D.4.8 [Operating Systems]: Performance - Measurements, Monitors;

General Terms: Design, Performance, Reliability, Security.

Additional Key Words and Phrases: mobile computing, wireless communication, application-aware adaptation.

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Satyanarayanan, M. and Ellis, C. S., 1996. Position Statement, Strategic Directions in Computing Research: Working Group on Storage I/O Issues in Large-Scale Computing, Computing Surveys, 28A(4), December 1996, http://www.cs.duke.edu/~carla/SatyaEllisIO/.

Submission date

June 14, 1996

Revision date

October 22, 1996

Acceptance date

October 31, 1996

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