Paper Info
Title
Moitree: A Middleware for Cloud-Assisted Mobile Distributed Apps
Abstract
This paper presents Moitree, the middleware of our Avatar platform for mobile cloud computing. Avatar leverages cloud resources to support fast, scalable, reliable, and energy efficient distributed computing over mobile devices. Each mobile device is augmented by an avatar, a per-user always-on software entity that resides in the cloud and acts as the surrogate of the mobile device, to the extent possible, thus reducing the workload and the demand for storage, bandwidth, and energy on the mobiles. Moitree provides: (1) a novel middleware which allows unmodified apps to execute seamlessly over mobile/avatar pairs with the provision of offloading computation and communication, and (2) a new programming framework to simplify mobile collaborative app development. The programming framework has two key features: (1) user collaborations are modeled using natural group semantics - groups are created dynamically based on context and are hierarchical. (2) data communication is offloaded to the cloud through high-level communication channels. A prototype of Moitree, along with several apps, has been implemented and evaluated on Android devices and on an OpenStack-based cloud running Android x86 avatars.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/MobileCloud.2016.21
2016 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile cloud computing,mobile distributed apps,avatar,Android
Mobile technology,Mobile cloud computing,Mobile computing,Mobile search,Computer science,Mobile database,Mobile deep linking,Mobile Web,Operating system,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2573-7554
9
0.51
References 
Authors
14
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammad A. Khan19911.58
Hillol Debnath2252.57
Nafize R. Paiker3112.25
Narain Gehani4425.10
Xiaoning Ding5111165.19
Reza Curtmola6170181.60
Cristian Borcea780662.00