MOCCAA: A Delta-synchronized and Adaptable Mobile Cloud Computing Framework.

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) requires an infrastructure that is merging the capabilities of resource-constrained but mobile and context-aware devices with that of immovable but powerful resources in the cloud. Application execution shall be boosted and battery consumption reduced. However, a solution's practicability is only ensured, if the provided tools, environment and framework themselves are performant too and if developers are able to adopt, extend and apply it easily. In this light, we introduce our comprehensive and extendable framework MOCCAA (MObile Cloud Computing AdaptAble) and demonstrate its effectiveness. Its performance gain is mainly achieved through minimized monitoring efforts for resource consumption prediction, scalable and location-aware resource discovery and management, and, in particular, through our graph-based delta synchronization of local and remote object states. This allows us to reduce synchronization costs significantly and improve quality dimensions such as latency and bandwidth consumption.