Android as a server platform

Author

Toyama, Masashi ; Kurumatani, Shunsuke ; Heo, Joon ; Terada, Kenji ; Chen, Eric Y.

Author_Institution

NTT Inf. Sharing Platform Labs., NTT Corp., Muasashino, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

9-12 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

1181

Lastpage

1185

Abstract

The number of smartphone users and mobile applications are growing rapidly. Though smartphones are expected to have PC-like functionality, hardware resources such as CPUs, memory and batteries are still limited. To solve this resource problem, many researches have proposed architectures to use server resources in the cloud for mobile devices. We propose a conceptual architecture of Android as a Server Platform, which enables multiple user Android applications on cloud server via network. Though Android is mainly designed for physical smartphone, Android´s two other features are useful to construct a server platform. Android is open-source product and runs on an ×86 CPU. We show three types of multi-tenant architecture for an Android server platform and discuss the direction to take to it reality.

Keywords

cloud computing; file servers; mobile computing; mobile radio; operating systems (computers); software architecture; Android server platform; CPU; PC-like functionality; cloud server; hardware resource; mobile application; mobile device; multitenant architecture; open-source product; physical smartphone; server resource; smartphone user; Conferences; Android; Cloud; Multi-tenant; Virtualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8789-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2011.5766364

Filename

5766364