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...