Simplifying cyber foraging for mobile devices

Abstract
Cyber foraging is the transient and opportunistic use of compute servers by mobile devices. The short market life of such devices makes rapid modification of applications for remote execution an important problem. We describe a solution that combines,a “little language” for cyber foraging with an adaptive runtime system. We report results from a user study showing,that even novice developers are able to successfully modify large, unfamiliar applications in just a few hours. We also show that the quality of novice-modified and expert-mod ified applications are comparable,in most cases. This research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant numbers,ANI-

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