Using satellite execution to reduce latency for mobile/cloud applications

We demonstrate a practical way to reduce latency for mobile .NET applications that interact with cloud services, without disrupting application architectures. We provide a programming abstraction for location-independent code, which has the potential to execute either locally or at a satellite execu...

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Main Authors: Pettersen, Robert, Valvåg, Steffen, Kvalnes, Åge Andre, Johansen, Dag
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
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Summary:We demonstrate a practical way to reduce latency for mobile .NET applications that interact with cloud services, without disrupting application architectures. We provide a programming abstraction for location-independent code, which has the potential to execute either locally or at a satellite execution environment in the cloud, where other cloud services can be accessed with low latency. This maintains a simple deployment model, but gives applications the option to offload latency-sensitive code to the cloud. Services like cloud databases can still be accessed programmatically, but with less concern for the aggregated latency of consecutively-issued requests. Our evaluation shows that this approach can significantly improve the response time for applications that execute dependent database queries, and that the required cloud-side resources are modest.
ISSN:1865-0937
1865-0929
1865-0937
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-29582-4_15