• DocumentCode
    1692971
  • 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
  • fYear
    2013
  • Firstpage
    647
  • Lastpage
    648
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • ISSN
    2158-3994
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1361-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCE.2013.6487054
  • Filename
    6487054