A programming model and system support for disconnected-aware applications on resource-constrained devices

Personal mobile devices (PMDs) have become the most used computing devices for many people. With the introduction of mobile cloud computing, we can augment the storage and computing capabilities of PMDs via cloud support. However, there are many challenges in developing mobile cloud applications (MCAs) that incorporate cloud computing efficiently, especially for developers targeting multiple mobile platforms.This paper presents Uniport, a uniform framework for developing MCAs. We introduce a uniform architecture for MCAs based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern and a set of programming primitives and runtime libraries. Not only can Uniport support the creation of new MCAs, it can also help transform existing mobile applications to MCAs efficiently. We demonstrate the applicability and flexibility of Uniport in a case study to transform three existing mobile applications on iOS, Android and Windows Phone, to their mobile cloud versions respectively. Evaluation results show that, with very few modifications, we can easily transform mobile applications to MCAs that can exploit the cloud support to improve performance by 3-7x and save more than half of their energy consumption.

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“…Weinsberg and Ben-Shaul propose a model for disconnected-aware applications on resource-constrained devices [28].…”

Section: A Mobile Cloud Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uniport: A Uniform Programming Support Framework for Mobile Cloud Computing

Yuan

Guo

Chen

2015

2015 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering

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“…Context-aware software deployment employs context to determine functionalities or components being deployed to mobile devices [5], [8], [11], [12]. Our approach of software deployment adapts to users' interests by using users' subscription and adapts to device capability by matching device specifications with software specifications.…”

Section: Context-aware Software Deploymentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Framework for Over the Air Provider-Initiated Software Deployment on Mobile Devices

Torabi

2008

19th Australian Conference on Software Engineering (Aswec 2008)

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While mobile users want to obtain software anywhere and anytime without the knowledge of software availability in advance, software providers want to deploy their software to mobile devices without the users' intervention. However, because mobile devices expose special characteristics such as restriction of capability, heterogeneity, mobility, wireless connectivity, and context-orientation, deployment of software or context-aware services on mobile devices is a problematical issue. This work proposes a framework for over the air provider-initiated software deployment on mobile devices (OTA-PSD). Using the OTA-PSD, once new software or software updates are available, by the initiation of the provider, the compatible mobile devices, which have subscribed to the provider, will automatically receive this software with the minimum users' intervention. This framework allows providers to deploy their services on mobile devices based on users' context and device specification. To demonstrate the feasibility of the OTA-PSD, we developed a deployment system based on the OTA-PSD. We successfully demonstrated the deployment of a case study using our deployment system.

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“…Components in our system are an aggregation of objects, similar to FarGo [14]. As the first step in creating the components we encourage the separation of data and behaviour.…”

Section: Componentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Over-the-air deployment of applications in multi-platform environments

Fjellheim

2006

Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC'06)

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Over-the-air (OTA) delivery of applications is important to support as it enables easy deployment and upgrades to applications, thereby reducing the disrupting effect which installations may have on mobile users. The mobile environment is highly heterogeneous, hence OTA servers must be able to deliver customised applications and also adapt their delivery mechanism to various protocols. This paper outlines our experience in designing an adaptive platform to enable heterogeneous OTA delivery. We have utilised the 3DMA architecture which includes features such as changing interactions, disconnection support and dynamic delivery of applications. We have extended previous work on this architecture by using it for implementing an adaptable webserver to support OTA over HTTP. A simple case study found that by allowing JIT packaging of data and behaviour, delivery of both content and behaviour can be tailored to the current context. This eliminates the need for pre-packaged deployment solutions that are difficult to employ in environments with dynamic variations in resources and context.

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A programming model and system support for disconnected-aware applications on resource-constrained devices

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Uniport: A Uniform Programming Support Framework for Mobile Cloud Computing

Uniport: A Uniform Programming Support Framework for Mobile Cloud Computing

A Framework for Over the Air Provider-Initiated Software Deployment on Mobile Devices

Over-the-air deployment of applications in multi-platform environments

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