Thomas Kunz
Systems and Computer Engineering
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Mobile Code/Agents for Adaptive Mobile
Applications
Mobile Device
Base
Station/Proxy
Correspondent Host
(e.g., WWW server)
Computing Paradigm: Client-Proxy-Server
Client: mobile device
reduced
computational power
limited
I/O facilities
low-bandwidth
wireless connection
Proxy: split client
component, execute part (encapsulated as
agent)
on more powerful proxy if advantageous
Server: traditional server, executes unchanged on
correspondent
host
Internet
Cloud
