Misco: a MapReduce framework for mobile systems
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
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The current generation mobile phones (a.k.a. Smart phones) are becoming one of the main information processing devices for users these days. Using it, a user not only receives and makes calls, but also performs complicated tasks requiring large processing. However, a unary mobile phone is still resource constrained, and some applications, especially the ones which need large processing, usually demand more resources than a mobile phone can afford. To alleviate this, a mobile device should be able to use resources from an external source. Existing approaches mainly facilitated the cloud computing platform and offload computation tasks from mobile device to cloud platform. Nevertheless, access to these platforms cannot always be guaranteed to be available and/or is too expensive. We envision a way to overcome this issue by creating a virtual cloud computing platform, named MC2, using nearby mobile devices. We argue that due to the pervasiveness of mobile phones and the enhancement in their communication capabilities, this idea is feasible. We show prior evaluation results by implementing the distributed search application using MC2 to support our concept and discuss future developments.