A Practical Approach to Partition Applications in Pervasive Computing Environments

Abstract

Abstract Application partitioning to make optimum use of available computational devices in a pervasive computing environment is being researched heavily both in military domain as well for the civil society. This work is a sequel of our previous theoretical effort in developing a framework for seamless application partitioning and distribution at runtime in pervasive computing environments. In this work, we described four important requirements that any partitioning framework must adhere to: partitioning at runtime, network fault tolerant, retractable capability and preservation of application state. We proposed a framework that encompassed all the mentioned requirements and its prototype implementation. We then designed a very simple laboratory music player that run on top of the framework.