Cloudlets
Published 25 June 2012
Tim Verbelen, Pieter Simoens, Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt
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A more fine grained cloudlet concept that manages applications on a component level is proposed that can be formed in a dynamic way with any device in the LAN network with available resources.
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Although mobile devices are gaining more and more capabilities (i.e. CPU power, memory, connectivity, ...), they still fall short to execute complex rich media and data analysis applications. Offloading to the cloud is not always a solution, because of the high WAN latencies, especially for applications with real-time constraints such as augmented reality. Therefore the cloud has to be moved closer to the mobile user in the form of cloudlets. Instead of moving a complete virtual machine from the cloud to the cloudlet, we propose a more fine grained cloudlet concept that manages applications on a component level. Cloudlets do not have to be fixed infrastructure close to the wireless access point, but can be formed in a dynamic way with any device in the LAN network with available resources. We present a cloudlet architecture together with a prototype implementation, showing the advantages and capabilities for a mobile real-time augmented reality application.
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