Simplifying Cyber Foraging for Mobile Devices

• Main Authors: BALAN, Rajesh Krishna, Gergle, Darren, Satyanarayanan, Mahadev, Herbsleb, James
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: mobile computing; user study; programmer productivity; software engineering; rapid prototyping; retargeting applications; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/263; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1262/viewcontent/balan_mobisys_2007.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Cyber foraging is the transient and opportunistic use of compute servers by mobile 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.