TRACK: keeping track of highly mobile objects
Eric Jul · 2013
This paper proposes a novel language mechanism to accommodate applications that depend on keeping track of the location of highly mobile objects. New applications are driven by several new trends: new, powerful devices such as smart-phones and Google Glass and vastly improved connectivity between such devices and powerful data centers in the Cloud. Applications running on such new, relatively thin clients, can immensely benefit from the enormous data and compute power provided by Cloud computing. As such devices are inherently highly mobile, they will move along the edge of the cloud and it may be advantageous to track such mobility. Furthermore, objects executing in the cloud may move onto the devices to achieve low latency, or, vice versa, may move from the device into the cloud as to leverage the power of the Cloud.