NWSLite: A Light-Weight Prediction Utility for Mobile Devices

Computation off-loading, i.e., remote execution, has been shown to be effective for extending the computational power and battery life of resource-restricted devices, e.g., hand-held, wearable, and pervasive computers. Remote execution systems must predict the cost of executing both locally and remotely to determine when offloading will be most beneficial. These costs however, are dependent upon the execution behavior of the task being considered and the highly-variable performance of the underlying resources, e.g., CPU (local and remote), bandwidth, and network latency. As such, remote execution systems must employ sophisticated, prediction techniques that accurately guide computation off-loading. Moreover, these techniques must be efficient, i.e., they cannot consume significant resources, e.g., energy, execution time, etc., since they are performed on the mobile device. In this paper, we present NWSLite, a computationally efficient, highly accurate prediction utility for mobile dev...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: MOBISYS
• Authors: Selim Gurun, Chandra Krintz, Richard Wolski
• Keywords: Execution Behavior, MOBISYS 2004, Remote Execution Prediction, Remote Execution Systems, Wireless Networks