Uma ferramenta baseada em containers docker para experimentação em mobile cloud computing

Abstract

Mobile Cloud Computing emerged from the collaboration between cloud computing and mobile computing aiming to improve the execution of applications on mobile devices with the processing power provided by cloud computing. Many works on Mobile Cloud Computing study the impact of network conditions on the offloading exection. However, ones analyze scenarios with just one user, be it because no resources are available or because of the difficult of managing several devices. This work aimed to develop a tool that allowed the making and setting up of test environments with multiple mobile devices. To evaluate the proposed tool, an experiment was executed, where clients and servers were created, with different network configurations. Clients ran an application to calculate the multiplication of two matrices and during the experiment each device performed 30 times. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed solution fulfilled the objectives and is a viable option for developers and researchers.