Simplifying cyber foraging for mobile devices

  • Authors:
  • Rajesh Krishna Balan;Darren Gergle;Mahadev Satyanarayanan;James Herbsleb

  • Affiliations:
  • Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore;Northwestern University, Evanston, IL;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Cyber foraging is the transient and opportunistic use of compute servers bymobile devices. The short market life of such devices makes rapid modification of applications for remote execution an important problem. We describe a solution that combines a "little language" for cyber foraging with an adaptive runtime system. We report results from a user study showing that even novice developers are able to successfully modify large, unfamiliar applications in just a few hours. We also show that the quality of novice-modified and expert-modified applications are comparable in most cases.