TOWARDS MOBILE DEVICE CLOUD
Authors: Mikko Raatikainen, Varvana Myllärniemi, Subhamoy Ghosh, Jari Pääkkö, Tomi Männistö, Mikko Ylikangas, Olli Korjus, Eero Uusitalo, Niko Mäkitalo, Heikki Peltola, Tommi Mikkonen, Tapani Leppänen, Timo Aaltonen
Category: research article
Keywords: Cloud, Software, Mobile Device
Abstract: Although cloud computing has established itself as a novel paradigm, mobile devices have unique characteristics and capabilities that are not made part of a cloud. This paper presents the notion of a mobile device cloud: mobile devices become active members in the cloud, sharing content, resources, and services with each other. We discuss how the concepts of cloud computing could be applied to mobile device clouds. Further, the implementation of some key components in a mobile device cloud is discussed.
Permanent link to this page: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe201109275587
-The idea of a mobile device cloud is relevant and timely to the current landscape of mobile and cloud computing.
Detailed comments on the paper:
-In the self-healing compositions section, examples of self-management actions would improve the independence of the paper from referenced papers. Also, the optimization of task execution by changing the device that executes a task has been discussed in the area of mobile computing under the term "offloading" or "computation offloading". Consider discussing this.
-There are related work in the area of mobile computing and cyber foraging. Consider discussing how the current work differs from cyber foraging, e.g. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1872504 (inclusion of desktops to the mobile cloud might be interesting)
-Another piece of related work is content-based search and file synchronization for mobile devices, e.g. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1828823 (Is there any file synchronization in the current work? Content filtering is done, how about keyword search?)