Cyber Foraging for Improving Survivability of Mobile Systems

Abstract

Cyber-foraging is a technique for dynamically augmenting the computing power of resource-limited mobile devices by opportunistically exploiting nearby fixed computing infrastructure. Cloudlet-based cyber-foraging relies on discoverable, generic, forward-deployed servers located in single-hop proximity of mobile devices. We define tactical cloudlets as the infrastructure to support computation offload and data staging at the tactical edge. However, the characteristics of tactical environmentssuch as dynamic context, limited computing resources, disconnected-intermittent-limited (DIL) network connectivity, and high levels of stresspose a challenge for the continued operations of mobile systems that leverage cloudlets in tactical environments. We also define survivability of mobile systems as the capability of a system to continue functioning in spite of adversity. This report presents an architecture and experimental results that demonstrate that cyber-foraging using tactical cloudlets increases the survivability of mobile systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 10, 2016
Accession Number
AD1044975

Entities

People

  • Ben Bradshaw
  • Grace Lewis
  • James Root
  • Sebastin Echeverra

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Cloud Computing
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Data Centers
  • Environment
  • Infrastructure
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Protocols
  • Reliability
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Survivability

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber