Towards a middleware for mobile edge-cloud applications

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2017

Authors

Rodrigues, J (Author) Other; Eduardo Marques (Author) FCUP; Lopes, L (Author) FCUP; Silva, F (Author) FCUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets, MECC@Middleware 2017, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 11 - 15, 2017

Pages: 1:1-1:6

2nd Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds and Cloudlets, MECC 2017

11 December 2017 through 15 December 2017

Indexing

Scopus - 22 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00N-89E

DOI: 10.1145/3152360.3152361

Abstract (EN): In the last decade, technological advances and improved manufacturing processes have significantly dropped the price tag of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets whilst augmenting their storage and computational capabilities. Their ubiquity fostered research on mobile edge-clouds, formed by sets of such devices in close proximity, with the goal of mastering their global computational and storage resources. The development of crowdsourcing applications that take advantage of such edge-clouds is, however, hampered by the complexity of network formation and maintenance, the intrinsic instability of wireless links and the heterogeneity of the hardware and operating systems in the devices. In this paper we present a middleware to deal with this complexity, providing a building block upon which crowd-sourcing applications may be built.We motivate the development of the middleware through a discussion of real-world applications, and present the middleware's architecture along with the associated components and current development status. The middleware takes form as a Java API for Android devices that allows for the establishment of links using heterogeneous communication technologies (e.g., Wifi-Direct, Bluetooth), and the combination of these links to form a logical edge-cloud network. On top of this functionality, services for edge computation, storage, and streaming are also being developed. © 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific