ContextOS: A Context Aware Operating System for Mobile Devices

Author

Ariyapala, Kanishka ; Conti, Marco ; Keppitiyagama, Chamath

Author_Institution

Univ. of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

fYear

2013

fDate

20-23 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

976

Lastpage

984

Abstract

The Operating System (OS) manages the hardware resources of a computer. For an OS, the knowledge about context is valuable information in optimizing its tasks. Recent mobile devices, such as smart-phones and tablets, are providing new avenues in context aware computing, because of the wide variety of sensors integrated into them. This paper identifies the importance of integrating context awareness at the OS level. In particular, we propose ContextOS, a proof of concept implementation of a context aware OS for mobile devices. ContextOS leverages the context knowledge for process scheduling. We implemented ContextOS in Android. The results of our experiments confirm the feasibility and usability of our solution.

Keywords

Android (operating system); mobile computing; smart phones; Android; concept implementation; context aware computing; context aware operating system; context awareness; contextOS; hardware resources; mobile devices; process scheduling; smart-phones; tablets; Androids; Context; Context-aware services; Hardware; Humanoid robots; Kernel; Sensors; Context Aware; Mobile Devices; Operating System;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), 2013 IEEE and Internet of Things (iThings/CPSCom), IEEE International Conference on and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom.2013.168

Filename

6682182