μCloud: Towards a New Paradigm of Rich Mobile Applications

To be published in the 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS).  μCloud: Towards a New Paradigm of Rich Mobile Applications Verdi March, Yan Gu, Erwin Leonardi, George Goh, Markus Kirchberg, Bu Sung Lee HP Laboratories HPL-2011-55R1 mobile cloud; component; composition Rich mobile applications are characterized by rich functionality, offline usability and portability. However, it is not trivial to simultaneously satisfy all the three criteria. Existing approaches such stand-alone applications and the thin-client architecture satisfy only a subset of these criteria. In this paper, we show that rich mobile applications can be achieved through the convergence of mobile and cloud computing. We address two main issues in cloud-enabled mobile applications, namely complexity of application development and offline usability. We then propose μCloud framework which models a rich mobile application as a graph of components distributed onto mobile devices and the cloud. Lastly, we discuss μCloud's major research issues, i.e., workflow language for interactive applications, offline usability, secure and scalable multi-tenancy, portability and energy optimization. External Posting Date: June 21, 2011 [Fulltext] Approved for External Publication Internal Posting Date: June 21, 2011 [Fulltext] Copyright 2011 the 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS). Accepted in the 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS) μCloud: Towards a New Paradigm of Rich Mobile Applications Verdi Marcha,∗, Yan Gua, Erwin Leonardia, George Goha, Markus Kirchberga, Bu Sung Leea,∗ aServices Platform Lab, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Singapore 1 Fusionopolis Way, 14th Floor (South Tower), Singapore 138632 Emails: [email protected], [email protected]