PowerShare: A distributed processing system for Android devices

摘要

There has been a significant increase in the number of mobile devices sold and their computation capabilities in recent years. The computational capability of a cluster of mobile devices presents us with an opportunity to utilize those resources in a number of real world applications. We have developed PowerShare-an Android based application that uses a combination of Wi-Fi-P2P and Bluetooth to form an infrastructure with nearby devices. The network represents a shared resource pool of all the connected devices. By taking into account the load each node can handle, PowerShare delegates tasks optimally to every connected node in the network. PowerShare's optimal allocation function coupled with the unutilized computational resource of a mobile device can be used in many distributed processing applications. The design and experimental results based on a prototype are presented. The results show that PowerShare successfully optimizes task allocation to nodes and utilizes their computing resources efficiently.