Context and resource aware cloud-based solution for efficient and scalable multi-persona mobile computing

Abstract

Fueled by changes in professional application models, personal interests and desires, and technological advances in mobile devices, multi-persona mobile computing has emerged recently to keep balance between different aspects, in our daily life, on a single mobile terminal. In this context, mobile virtualization technology has turned the corner and currently heading towards widespread adoption to realize multi-persona. Although recent lightweight virtualization techniques were able to maintain balance between security and scalability of personas, the limited CPU power and insufficient memory and battery capacities, still threaten personas performance and physical device viability. Throughout the last few years, cloud computing has cultivated and refined the concept of outsourcing computing resources, and nowadays, in the coming age of smartphones and tablets, the prerequisites are met for importing cloud computing to support resource constrained mobiles. From these premises, we propose in this thesis a novel mobile cloud-based solution for efficient multi-persona mobile computing support, which includes (1) profiling means for device, network and program monitoring; (2) generic, adaptable and lightweight optimization techniques for resource and performance management; (3) proactive methods with advanced manageability strategies; and (4) efficient algorithms to automatically find the adequate strategies to be applied by the end terminal while meeting with personas requirements and system survivability. Various prototypes have been built and evaluated via extensive experiments through which the results have proved the efficiency of the proposed solutions.

Date	13 Dec 2017
Original language	American English
Awarding Institution	École de technologie supérieure
Supervisor	Nadjia Kara (Supervisor) & Chamseddine Talhi (Co-supervisor)