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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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