ZTE Communications ›› 2011, Vol. 9 ›› Issue (1): 9-14.
Bo Zhao1, Zhi Xu1, Caixia Chi2, Sencun Zhu1, and Guohong Cao1
Bo Zhao1, Zhi Xu1, Caixia Chi2, Sencun Zhu1, and Guohong Cao1
摘要: An increasing number of applications and functions are being introduced into smartphones, but smartphones have limited computation ability and battery resources. To enhance smartphone capacity, cloud computing and virtualization techniques can be used to shift the workload from smartphone to computational infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a new framework in which a mirror is kept for each smartphone on a computing infrastructure in the telecom network. With mirrors, the workload can be greatly reduced, and smartphone resources can be virtually expanded. The feasibility of deploying this framework in telecom networks is demonstrated in the protocol design, a synchronization study, and a scalability test. Two applications are introduced to show how computational workload on the smartphone and traffic in the telecom network are significantly reduced using our techniques.