A cost driven approach to information collection for mobile environments

Mobile multimedia applications have QoS requirements; resource provisioning algorithms utilize current system resource availability information to ensure that these applications meet their QoS requirements. Information collection algorithms collect and maintain current system resource information and are vital in performing efficient resource provisioning. We present a cost driven approach to the information collection problem for mobile environments. Our approach aggregates mobility patterns of mobile hosts and tries to minimize the overhead involved in the collection process. We compare its performance with existing techniques for collecting system state information.