Relocatable Object Creation in a Mobile Computing Environment

Sebnem Baydere et.al.
Procedings of Int'l. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Applications and Techniques (PDPTA'97), Las Vegas, NA, June 1997, pp.1165-1169.

Abstract

Resource constraints of a mobile host may change during the lifetime of an application running on it. Because of these constraints, system facilities that are provided in traditional computing environments such as dependence on static resources and continuous connectivity can not be relied on. New computing environments are needed. Designing general-purpose computing environments for wireless mobile computers is a difficult challenge as it requires to deal with the mobility constraints of the machine as well as the performance of wireless networks. In this paper an object infrastucture enabling objects to change their execution environment from the mobile host to a resource rich mobile service provider is explained. The output of the execution is resumed by the object owner on the mobile host. The environment offers advantages for standalone applications, which require more processing power and client/server applications that require continuous connectivity to some resources.

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