Heterogeneous Multi-Mobile Computing (video)

ABSTRACTAs smartphones and tablets proliferate, there is a growing demand for multi-mobile computing [1, 2], the ability to combine multiple commodity mobile systems into more capable ones, including using multiple hardware devices such as cameras, displays, speakers, microphones, sensors, GPS, and input. However, the tremendous device, hardware, and software heterogeneity of mobile systems makes this difficult. In this demo, we present M2, a system for multi-mobile computing that enables existing unmodified mobile apps to make use of new ways of sharing and combining multiple devices. M2 introduces a new data-centric approach that leverages higher-level device abstractions and encoding/decoding hardware to efficiently share device data as opposed to low-level device-specific APIs.