MobileFBP - A Dynamic Migration Framework for Android Applications

• Main Authors: Tien-Tzong Tzeng, 曾天縱
• Other Authors: Shih-Hao Hung
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99298266708570270071

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 資訊工程學研究所 === 101 === Fundamentally, the computing resources on a mobile device are limited by the form factors of the device. For a mobile application to overcome this resource limitation, it might seek and utilize extra resources in the cloud. Client-server model is a traditional method to utilize the cloud resources, but it requires the programmer to partition applications and establish the server environment, which are not simple tasks. Thus, we investigate procedure offloading techniques which migrate the program process to cloud system dynamically without requiring the programmer to provide a cloud service in advance. In this thesis, we proposed a unified application development framework, called MobileFBP, which leverages the Flow-Based Programming (FBP) paradigm to enable the development of portable mobile applications to run accross different mobile-cloud computing environments with scalable performance. The framework further supports heterogeneous cloud systems to reduce the execution time and power consumption with multicore processors, GPU, and hardware accelerators. We discuss the design of the MobileFBP framework and present several usage scenarios in our experimental studies.