Mobility Reflection: Exploiting Mobility-Awareness in Applications by Reflecting on Distributed Object Collaborations

We present Mobility Reflection, which demonstrates a reflection-based approach for designing mobilityawareness into applications. We propose an architecture that gives an application the ability to “reflect” upon its current behavior and to modify that behavior to adapt to changing network conditions caused by its host roaming in a mobile data network. The proposed architecture tailors dynamic decision making and adaptive behavior to the context of application-specific object collaborations. This focused context helps to manage the complex constraints of maintaining application requirements in a dynamic environment of changing device characteristics and network resource availability.