International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Large variations in network Quality of Service (QoS) in terms of bandwidth, latency and jitter may occur during media transfer over mobile ad-hoc networks. Applications need to adapt their functionality according to dynamic change of their QoS update. This paper proposes an enhanced service based platform to provide adaptive network management services to higher level application layer components. The Context Aware Adaptive Service (COAAS) is a middleware architecture for service adaptation based on ad hoc network and service awareness. COAAS is structured in such a way that it can provide QoS awareness to streaming applications as well manage dynamic ad hoc network resources using an adaptive channel allocation approach. The overall architecture of COAAS framework includes core components to connection establishment, connection monitor, connection controller and policy manager. Adaptive channel allocation defined as object based component helps in dynamic binding during run time implemented using JXTA and J2ME using CDC [15] toolkit to demonstrate the performance of a mobile setup as a conference application.