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Abstracts - 1997 ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE
Network-aware Mobile Programs
M.Ranganathan, Anurag Acharya, Shamik D. Sharma, and Joel Saltz
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate network-aware mobile programs,
programs that can use mobility as a tool to adapt to variations
in network characteristics. We present infrastructural support
for mobility and network monitoring and show how adaptalk, a
Java-based mobile Internet chat application, can take advantage
of this support to dynamically place the chat server so as to
minimize response time. Our conclusion was that on-line network
monitoring and adaptive placement of shared data-structures can
significantly improve performance of distributed applications
on the Internet.
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