Accelerating Mobile Applications through Flip-Flop Replication
Mark S. Gordon, David Ke Hong, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Scott A. Mahlke, Z. Morley Mao · 2015
Mobile devices have less computational power and poorer Internet connections than other computers. Computation offload, in which some portions of an application are migrated to a server, has been proposed as one way to remedy this deficiency. Yet, partition-based offload is challenging because it requires applications to accurately predict whether mobile or remote computation will be faster, and it requires that the computation be large enough to overcome the cost of shipping state to and from the server. Further, offload does not currently benefit network-intensive applications.