Enabling component-based mobile cloud computing with the AIOLOS middleware

Steven Bohez, Elias De Coninck, Tim Verbelen, Pieter Simoens, Bart Dhoedt

Abstract: Currently, mobile and wearable devices (such as smartphones and tablets) and cloud computing are converging in the new, rapidly growing field of mobile cloud computing. Emerging distributed cloud architectures such as edge clouds can be used to support and scale out resource-intensive, low-latency mobile applications. However, at the moment, a lot of burden is put on the application developer in order to develop and deploy distributed cloud-enabled mobile applications. Therefore, we present AIOLOS: an integrated middleware platform that supports transparent distributed deployment and scaling among mobile devices and cloud infrastructures. To evaluate the middleware, we show experimental results of AIOLOS using a complex 3D mapping use case.