scholarly journals MobiCOP: A Scalable and Reliable Mobile Code Offloading Solution

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
José I. Benedetto ◽  
Guillermo Valenzuela ◽  
Pablo Sanabria ◽  
Andrés Neyem ◽  
Jaime Navón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Arbitrary Number ◽  
Performance Degradation ◽  
Mobile Code ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Code Offloading ◽  
Minimum Performance ◽  
Novel Design

Code offloading is a popular technique for extending the natural capabilities of mobile devices by migrating processor-intensive tasks to resource-rich surrogates. Despite multiple platforms for offloading being available in academia, these frameworks have yet to permeate the industry. One of the primary reasons for this is limited experimentation in practical settings and lack of reliability, scalability, and options for distribution. This paper introduces MobiCOP, a new code offloading framework designed from the ground up with these requirements in mind. It features a novel design fully self-contained in a library and offers compatibility with most stock Android devices available today. Compared to local task executions, MobiCOP offers performance improvements of up to 17x and increased battery efficiency of up to 25x, shows minimum performance degradation in environments with unstable networks, and features an autoscaling module that allows its server counterpart to scale to an arbitrary number of offloading requests. It is compatible with the most relevant Android technologies optimized for heavy computation (NDK and Renderscript) and has so far been well received by fellow mobile developers. We hope MobiCOP will help bring mobile code offloading closer to the industry realm.

Architectural Search and Innovation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Albert ◽  
Nicolaj Siggelkow
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Product Complexity ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Architectural Change ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Architectural Innovation ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Novel Design

Product innovation can result from the novel design and combination of product components as well as from changing the underlying architecture: that is, the way components interact with each other. Even though previous studies have shown that architectural change can constitute a powerful source of innovation, little insight exists on how organizations should engage in architectural search itself. In this paper, using computer simulation, we explore underlying mechanisms of architectural search. We find that contrary to search for component combinations, architectural search provides greater performance improvements the narrower the search scope, regardless of product complexity. Moreover, our theory and findings suggest a more differentiated typology of architectural innovation. Although narrow architectural search often leads to pure architectural innovations that do not require substantial component changes, broader architectural search often leads to composite architectural innovation (i.e., architectural innovations that typically render existing component designs suboptimal but allow for new high-performing component combinations to arise). Lastly, although narrow architectural search outperforms broad architectural search in the long run, in the short run broad architectural search can have performance advantages.

Mobile code offloading: from concept to practice and beyond

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huber Flores ◽  
Pan Hui ◽  
Sasu Tarkoma ◽  
Yong Li ◽  
Satish Srirama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Code ◽  
Code Offloading

Android Unikernel: Gearing mobile code offloading towards edge computing

2018 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 694-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Wu ◽  
Chao Mei ◽  
Hai Jin ◽  
Duoqiang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Edge Computing ◽  
Mobile Code ◽  
Code Offloading
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