Application Streaming: A Mobile Application Distribution Method

摘要

The traditional App Store based application distribution model is facing some challenges such as poor manageability, mobile device storage capacity limits and frequent application updates. We propose an application streaming based mobile application distribution method to address these challenges. In our method, application is installed, updated and uninstalled in server. User simply select the application to execute and it is been executed in a streaming way. This method enable manageability for mobile application distribution and more personalized mobile application experience. In addition, this method can help solve the storage capacity constraint of mobile device and the frequent application updates. We also use local cache mechanism to save network traffic and improve application loading time. Evaluation show that cache mechanism can save 84.9% traffic compared with the non-caching streaming and 43.9% traffic than App Store based application distribution method.