Mobile service clouds: a self-managing infrastructure for autonomic mobile computing services

  • Authors:
  • Farshad A. Samimi;Philip K. McKinley;S. Masoud Sadjadi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI;School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL

  • Venue:
  • SelfMan'06 Proceedings of the Second IEEE international conference on Self-Managed Networks, Systems, and Services
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We recently introduced Service Clouds, a distributed infrastructure designed to facilitate rapid prototyping and deployment of autonomic communication services. In this paper, we propose a model that extends Service Clouds to the wireless edge of the Internet. This model, called Mobile Service Clouds, enables dynamic instantiation, composition, configuration, and reconfiguration of services on an overlay network to support mobile computing. We have implemented a prototype of this model and applied it to the problem of dynamically instantiating and migrating proxy services for mobile hosts. We conducted a case study involving data streaming across a combination of PlanetLab nodes, local proxies, and wireless hosts. Results are presented demonstrating the effectiveness of the prototype in establishing new proxies and migrating their functionality in response to node failures.