The Role of Cloudlets in Hostile Environments

The convergence of mobile computing and cloud computing is predicated on a reliable, high-bandwidth end-to-end network. This basic requirement is hard to guarantee in hostile environments such as military operations and disaster recovery. In this article, the authors examine how VM-based cloudlets that are located in close proximity to associated mobile devices can overcome this challenge. This article is part of a special issue on the edge of the cloud.

[1]  Mahadev Satyanarayanan,et al.  Just-in-time provisioning for cyber foraging , 2013, MobiSys '13.

[2]  Mahadev Satyanarayanan,et al.  Lowering the barriers to large-scale mobile crowdsensing , 2013, HotMobile '13.

[3]  Jason Flinn,et al.  Cyber Foraging: Bridging Mobile and Cloud Computing , 2012, Cyber Foraging: Bridging Mobile and Cloud Computing.

[4]  Paramvir Bahl,et al.  The Case for VM-Based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing , 2009, IEEE Pervasive Computing.

[5]  Susan W. Brenner,et al.  Cyberthreats: The Emerging Fault Lines of the Nation State , 2009 .

[6]  Jon Eisenberg,et al.  Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery , 2007 .

[7]  Xiaoyan Hong,et al.  A new set of passive routing attacks in mobile ad hoc networks , 2003, IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003..

[8]  Matthew J. Zieniewicz,et al.  The Evolution of Army Wearable Computers , 2002, IEEE Pervasive Comput..

[9]  Mahadev Satyanarayanan,et al.  Categories and Subject Descriptors: D.4.3 [Software]: File Systems Management—Distributed , 2022 .

[10]  James J. Kistler,et al.  Disconnected operation in the Coda file system , 1991, SOSP '91.

[11]  Mahadev Satyanarayanan,et al.  Andrew: a distributed personal computing environment , 1986, CACM.

[12]  Mahadev Satyanarayanan,et al.  The ITC distributed file system: principles and design , 1985, SOSP '85.

[13]  B. H. Rosenberg.  Biological and chemical warfare. , 1985, Science.

[14]  HERBERT A. SIMON,et al.  The Architecture of Complexity , 1991 .