Title :
Management of environments in 2K
Author :
Carvalho, Dulcineia ; Kon, Fabio ; Ballesteros, Francisco ; Roman, Manuel ; Campbell, Roy ; Mickunas, Dennis
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
Computer users are increasingly multi-device equipped and no longer sedentary. It is desirable that the execution environment in any of these devices be customized to the user preferences and to the device characteristics. This paper describes a framework for managing execution environments in 2K, an adaptable, distributed, network-centric, user- and application-oriented operating system aimed at accommodating change. A 2K environment is a container of components, devices and configuration parameters and provides an execution context for the user within the 2K distributed system. A user has a distributed execution environment that consists of several subenvironments running on different platforms or temporarily suspended to be resumed later. The management of the execution environments is designed to provide a user-centric view of the system; it facilitates user mobility, by liberating users from the restriction of being explicitly attached to specific platforms, and by seamlessly recruiting resources where they are available
Keywords :
management of change; mobile computing; network operating systems; 2K; adaptable operating system; application-oriented operating system; components; configuration parameters; distributed operating system; execution environment customization; execution environment management; network-centric operating system; user mobility; user preference; user-oriented operating system; Computer network management; Computer science; Containers; Distributed computing; Environmental management; Operating systems; Personal digital assistants; Recruitment; Resource management; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2000. Proceedings. Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Iwate
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0568-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICPADS.2000.857732