The Role of Cloudlets in Hostile Environments

October 1, 2013 • Article

By

Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University), Grace Lewis, Edwin J. Morris, Soumya Simanta, Jeff Boleng, and Kiryong Ha (Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science)

This article appeared in IEEE Pervasive Computing in a special issue on "The Edge of the Cloud."

Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Subjects

Cloud Computing Pervasive Mobile Computing

Abstract

The convergence of mobile computing and cloud computing is predicated on a reliable, high-bandwidth, end-to-end network, which is difficult to guarantee in hostile environments. However, virtual-machine-based cloudlets located in close proximity to associated mobile devices can overcome this deep-rooted problem.