Calling the Cloud: Enabling Mobile Phones as Interfaces to Cloud Applications

Mobile phones are set to become the universal interface to online services and cloud computing applications. However, using them for this purpose today is limited to two configurations: applications either run on the phone or run on the server and are remotely accessed by the phone. These two options do not allow for a customized and flexible service interaction, limiting the possibilities for performance optimization as well. In this paper we present a middleware platform that can automatically distribute different layers of an application between the phone and the server, and optimize a variety of objective functions (latency, data transferred, cost, etc.). Our approach builds on existing technology for distributed module management and does not require new infrastructures. In the paper we discuss how to model applications as a consumption graph, and how to process it with a number of novel algorithms to find the optimal distribution of the application modules. The application is...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: MIDDLEWARE
• Authors: Ioana Giurgiu, Oriana Riva, Dejan Juric, Ivan Krivulev, Gustavo Alonso
• Keywords: Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing Applications, Distributed And Parallel Computing, MIDDLEWARE 2009, Mobile Phones