Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

5-2003

Abstract

Remote execution can transform the puniest mobile device into a computing giant able to run resource-intensive applications such as natural language translation, speech recognition, face recognition, and augmented reality. However, easily partitioning these applications for remote execution while retaining application-specific information has proven to be a difficult challenge. In this paper, we show that automated dynamic repartitioning of mobile applications can be reconciled with the need to exploit application-specific knowledge. We show that the useful knowledge about an application relevant to remote execution can be captured in a compact declarative form calledtactics. Tactics capture the full range of meaningful partitions of an application and are very small relative to code size. We present the design of a tactics-based remote execution system, Chroma, that performs comparably to a runtime system that makes perfect partitioning decisions. Furthermore, we show that Chroma can automatically use extra resources in an over-provisioned environment to improve application performance.

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

MobiSys '03: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services: San Francisco, May 5-8, 2003

First Page

273

Last Page

286

Identifier

10.1145/1066116.1066125

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1066116.1066125

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