Benefits of Dynamic Computational Offloading for Mobile Devices

Vinay Yadhav, Andrew Williams, Ondrej Smid, Jimmy Kjällman, Raihan Islam, Joacim Halén, Wolfgang John

2024

Abstract

The proliferation of applications across mobile devices coupled with fast mobile broadband have led to expectations of better application performance, user experiences, and extended device battery life. To address this, we propose a dynamic computational offloading solution that migrates critical application tasks to remote compute sites within mobile networks. Offloading is particularly advantageous for lightweight devices, as it enables access to more capable processing hardware. Application developers can also leverage the offloading service to customize features, address privacy concerns, and optimize performance based on user requirements. Moreover, the solution facilitates local synchronization among collaborating users. Our solution focuses on ad-hoc deployment and dynamic scheduling of fine-grained application tasks triggered by changes in device metrics, without extensive development efforts. It extends application functionality from mobile devices to remote compute environments, complementing the cloud-to-edge paradigm. We introduce a distributed execution framework based on portable, lightweight, and secure WebAssembly runtimes. Additionally, we present a programming model to simplify ad-hoc deployment and dynamic invocation of task modules during runtime. We demonstrate the benefits of our solution, showing significant performance improvements of the application, and reduced energy consumption and heat generation on the mobile device.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Yadhav V., Williams A., Smid O., Kjällman J., Islam R., Halén J. and John W. (2024). Benefits of Dynamic Computational Offloading for Mobile Devices. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER; ISBN 978-989-758-701-6, SciTePress, pages 265-276. DOI: 10.5220/0012719800003711

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer24,
author={Vinay Yadhav and Andrew Williams and Ondrej Smid and Jimmy Kjällman and Raihan Islam and Joacim Halén and Wolfgang John},
title={Benefits of Dynamic Computational Offloading for Mobile Devices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER},
year={2024},
pages={265-276},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012719800003711},
isbn={978-989-758-701-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER
TI - Benefits of Dynamic Computational Offloading for Mobile Devices
SN - 978-989-758-701-6
AU - Yadhav V.
AU - Williams A.
AU - Smid O.
AU - Kjällman J.
AU - Islam R.
AU - Halén J.
AU - John W.
PY - 2024
SP - 265
EP - 276
DO - 10.5220/0012719800003711
PB - SciTePress