E-Mobile: A heterogeneous agent-based, remote off-loading framework for efficient energy management of mobile devices

Web applications are becoming increasingly popular on mobile/wireless devices. As more desktop applications that are inherently computational intensive and resource-demanding are being ported to the mobile platforms, the energy consumption of the devices is shooting up, thereby decreasing the battery life. An alternate approach is to off-load the resource intensive computations to remote server(s) and simply work off the results returned. However such solutions currently existing in the market do not handle multi-media applications like video-streaming very well often causing sub-optimal user experience. This paper proposes a framework for university and office settings that works transparently with the existing mobile clients and attempts to provide an energy efficient and fairly rich user experience by offloading computationally intensive tasks to desktops in their vicinity. General Terms Design, Energy, Architecture