Offloading Android applications to the cloud without customizing Android

Spreading more than twice as fast as PCs, smartphones are quickly becoming the primary mean for Internet access. However, smartphones today are still constrained by limited computation resources such as CPU, memory and battery. In this paper, we present a framework that automatically offloads heavy...

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Published in2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops pp. 788 - 793
Main Authors Chen, E., Ogata, S., Horikawa, K.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Japanese
Published IEEE 01.03.2012
Subjects
android
Androids
Batteries
cloud
cyber foraging
Humanoid robots
Measurement
Servers
Smart phones
smartphone
Virtual machining
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Summary:Spreading more than twice as fast as PCs, smartphones are quickly becoming the primary mean for Internet access. However, smartphones today are still constrained by limited computation resources such as CPU, memory and battery. In this paper, we present a framework that automatically offloads heavy back-end tasks of a regular standalone Android application to an Android virtual machine in the cloud. This framework can be deployed in the application layer without modifying the underlying Android platform. It also features three metrics that consider total response time, energy consumption and remaining battery life in deciding whether a task should be offloaded.
ISBN:1467309052
9781467309059
DOI:10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197619