Agile application-aware adaptation for mobility
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Balancing Performance, Energy, and Quality in Pervasive Computing
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
Adaptive Offloading for Pervasive Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing
A Lightweight Secure Cyber Foraging Infrastructure for Resource-Constrained Devices
WMCSA '04 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Slingshot: deploying stateful services in wireless hotspots
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
EW 10 Proceedings of the 10th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop
Predictive Resource Management for Wearable Computing
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Simplifying cyber foraging for mobile devices
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
An effective offloading middleware for pervasive services on mobile devices
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Future Generation Computer Systems
R-OSGi: distributed applications through software modularization
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2007 International Conference on Middleware
Future Generation Computer Systems
The Case for VM-Based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Calling the cloud: enabling mobile phones as interfaces to cloud applications
Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware
MAUI: making smartphones last longer with code offload
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Scheduling and development support in the Scavenger cyber foraging system
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
CODES/ISSS '10 Proceedings of the eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
Android: Changing the Mobile Landscape
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Dynamic deployment and quality adaptation for mobile augmented reality applications
Journal of Systems and Software
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As the popularity of smartphones and tablets increases, the mobile platform is becoming a very important target for application developers. Despite recent advances in mobile hardware, most mobile devices fail to execute complex multimedia applications (such as image processing) with an acceptable level of user experience. Cyber foraging is a well-known computing technique to enhance the capabilities of mobile devices, where the mobile device offloads parts of the application to a nearby discovered server in the network. Although first introduced in 2001, cyber foraging is still not widely adopted in current smartphone platforms or applications. In this respect, two major challenges are to be tackled. First, a suitable adaptive decision engine is needed to determine the optimal offloading decision, that takes into account the potentially high and variable latency between the device and the server. Second, an integrated cyber foraging platform with sufficient support for application developers is not publicly available on popular mobile platforms such as Android. In this paper, we present AIOLOS, a mobile middleware framework for cyber foraging on the Android platform. AIOLOS uses an estimation model that takes into account server resources and network state to decide at runtime whether or not a method call should be offloaded. We also introduce developer tools to integrate the AIOLOS framework in the Android platform, enabling easy development of cyber foraging enabled applications. A prototype implementation is presented and evaluated in detail by means of both a chess application and a newly developed photo editor application.