Multilingual cloudlet-based dictionary

Cloud Computing is a technology that moves the World forward. It helps the mobile users to run compute demanding applications on a remote cloud and access the results on their mobile devices. Usual processing of the cloud based applications is realized via a WAN connection. However, this approach is inefficient for real-time applications due to relatively huge WAN latency. Cloudlets solve this problem by exploiting the benefits of Cloud Computing without being WAN-limited. The cloudlet is a small cloud located near the mobile user. Cloudlets can perform the same processing tasks as a remote cloud by using Virtual Machines (VMs). In this paper we introduce the cloudlet approach to design a Multilingual Dictionary, which is a Cloudlet based application specifically developed to be processed on a near cloudlet as well as on a distant cloud. It will be used for translating words entered through a mobile device by using a VM deployment on the cloud/cloudlet and displaying the results on the mobile device. The initial version will support translation between two languages. Afterwards, it will be expanded to support multilingual translation.