Tactics-Based Remote Execution for Mobile Computing

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 re-partitioning 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 called tactics. 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.

BibTeX
@inproceedings {270310,
author = {Rajesh Krishna Balan and Mahadev Satyanarayanan and SoYoung Park and Tadashi Okoshi},
title = {{Tactics-Based} Remote Execution for Mobile Computing},
booktitle = {First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys2003)},
year = {2003},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/mobisys2003/tactics-based-remote-execution-mobile-computing},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may
}