Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:35 - 10:55 at Edenburg - Session II Chair(s): Aharon Abadi, Lori Flynn, Jeff Gray

This paper presents the results of a formative study conducted to determine the effects of computation offloading in mobile applications by comparing app performance (chiefly energy consumption and response time). The study examined two general execution scenarios: (1) computation is performed locally on mobile, and (2) when it is offloaded entirely to the cloud. The study also carefully considered the underlying network characteristics as an important factor affecting the performance. More specifically, we refactored 2 mobile applications to offload their computationally intensive functionality to execute in the cloud. We then profiled these apps under different network conditions, and carefully measured app performance in each case. The results were not as conclusive as we had expected. On fast networks, offloading is almost always beneficial. However, on slower networks, the offloading cost-benefit analysis is not as clear cut. The characteristics of the data transferred between the mobile device and the cloud may be a deciding factor in determining whether offloading a computation would improve performance.

Mon 26 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Session IIMobileDeLi at Edenburg
Chair(s): Aharon Abadi IBM Research, Lori Flynn CERT, Jeff Gray University of Alabama, USA
10:30
5m
Talk
An Evaluation Framework For Selection Of Mobile App Development Platform
MobileDeLi
Arvind Hudli MSRIT, Shrinidhi Hudli UCLA, Raghu Hudli ObjectOrb Technologies Pvt. Ltd
10:35
20m
Talk
Assessing the Benefits of Computational Offloading in Mobile-Cloud Applications
MobileDeLi
Tahmid Nabi Oregon State University, Pranjal Mittal Oregon State University, Pooria Azimi Oregon State University, Danny Dig Oregon State University, Eli Tilevich Virginia Tech
10:55
20m
Talk
Implementing real-time collaboration in TouchDevelop using AST merges
MobileDeLi
Jonathan Protzenko Microsoft Research
11:15
15m
Talk
Enforcing Fine-Grained Security and Privacy Policies in an Ecosystem within an Ecosystem
MobileDeLi
Waqar Ahmad Carnegie Mellon University, Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, Adam Wynne Bosch Research and Technology Center
11:30
15m
Talk
Automatic Detection, Correction and Visualization of Security Vulnerabilities in Mobile Apps
MobileDeLi
Marco Pistoia IBM Research, USA, Omer Tripp IBM Research, USA, Pietro Ferrara IBM Research, USA, Paolina Centonze Iona College
11:45
15m
Talk
Scalable Race Detection for Android Applications
MobileDeLi
Pavol Bielik ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Veselin Raychev ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Martin Vechev ETH Zurich, Switzerland