Runtime Overhead

 One of the advantages of dynamic adaptation is the efficient use of bandwidth. This is emphasized by the requirement R11. The gain in bandwidth is paid by higher runtime. The deployment of adaptation implicates an augmented runtime. The detection of the environment and the dynamic linking of parts into the application affords additional time. The purpose of the requirements R12-R13 is not to postulate an adaptation concept with necessarily lower runtime than when deploying static customization, but to keep at least the overhead of adaptation as low as possible.

In order to approximate the runtime overhead of adaptation, some rough measurements are done comparing the runtime of the prototype and an equivalent monolithic application. This is the object of the following section.