Title :
Patching a patch — Software updates using horizontal patching
Author :
Stolikj, Milosh ; Cuijpers, Pieter J. L. ; Lukkien, Johan J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
This paper presents a method for optimizing incremental updates of consumer electronic devices running multiple applications, called horizontal patching. Instead of using separate deltas for patching different applications, the method generates one delta from the other. Due to the large similarities between the deltas, this horizontal delta is small in size. In all test cases horizontal patching produced smaller deltas, with compression ratios between 8.02% and 43.38%.
Keywords :
software engineering; ubiquitous computing; compression ratio; consumer electronic device; delta similarity; horizontal delta; horizontal patching method; incremental update optimization; pervasive system; software update; Consumer electronics; Educational institutions; Encoding; Lighting; Operating systems; Protocols;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1361-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2013.6487054
