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Cuckoo: A Computation Offloading Framework for Smartphones

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Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2010)

Abstract

Offloading computation from smartphones to remote cloud resources has recently been rediscovered as a technique to enhance the performance of smartphone applications, while reducing the energy usage.

In this paper we present the first practical implementation of this idea for Android: the Cuckoo framework, which simplifies the development of smartphone applications that benefit from computation offloading and provides a dynamic runtime system, that can, at runtime, decide whether a part of an application will be executed locally or remotely. We evaluate the framework using two real life applications.

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    Roelof Kemp, Nicholas Palmer, Thilo Kielmann & Henri Bal

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Kemp, R., Palmer, N., Kielmann, T., Bal, H. (2012). Cuckoo: A Computation Offloading Framework for Smartphones. In: Gris, M., Yang, G. (eds) Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. MobiCASE 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_4

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