A Webpage Offloading Framework for Smart Devices

doi:10.1007/s11036-018-1009-z

	A Webpage Offloading Framework for Smart Devices
	Zhang, Jin 1; Liu, Weilai 1; Zhao, Wenjian 1; Ma, Xuan 1; Xu, Haocong 1; Gong, Xiaoli 1,2; Liu, Chengcheng 1; Yu, Haiyang 1
	2018-10-01
发表期刊	MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS
ISSN	1383-469X
卷号	23 期号:5 页码:1350-1363
摘要	Smart devices such as mobile phones and smart TVs are widely used for enriching our daily activities. Although their power source and processing speed are limited, it is necessary for these devices to provide certain computation power. To enhance computation capability on smart devices, offloading is proposed as one of the effective approaches. However, it requires extra efforts for developers to implement the offloading mechanism for each application. HTML5 standard provides a feature called Web Worker which allows web pages to spawn separate threads as workers. Since each worker holds individual execution environments and contexts, it is appropriate for offloading without complex partition. In this paper, we present a generic offloading framework for JavaScript Web Worker named Web Worker Offloading Framework (WWOF). This framework can offload the workers from browsers to the cloud easily and seamlessly. The Web Worker runs on an offloading server instead of on the browser, and exchanges data with clients via WebSocket. To prove the feasibility of this framework, we evaluated several benchmarks on different platforms including PCs, tablets, mobile phones and smart TVs. It is verified that this framework is able to suppress the devices' power consumption and to increase the execution speed, while running a heavy workload.
关键词	JavaScript offloading Web worker Thread migration Mobile cloud computing
DOI	10.1007/s11036-018-1009-z
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China[20130031120028] ; Research Plan in Application Foundation and Advanced Technologies in Tianjin[14JCQNJC 00700] ; Open Project of the State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences[CARCH201604] ; Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin[16JCY-BJC15 200]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Telecommunications
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Information Systems ; Telecommunications
WOS记录号	WOS:000450361100023
出版者	SPRINGER
引用统计	被引频次：3[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/4338
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Gong, Xiaoli
作者单位	1.Nankai Univ, Coll Comp & Control Engn, Tianjin 300350, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, State Key Lab Comp Architecture, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Jin,Liu, Weilai,Zhao, Wenjian,et al. A Webpage Offloading Framework for Smart Devices[J]. MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS,2018,23(5):1350-1363.
APA	Zhang, Jin.,Liu, Weilai.,Zhao, Wenjian.,Ma, Xuan.,Xu, Haocong.,...&Yu, Haiyang.(2018).A Webpage Offloading Framework for Smart Devices.MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS,23(5),1350-1363.
MLA	Zhang, Jin,et al."A Webpage Offloading Framework for Smart Devices".MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS 23.5(2018):1350-1363.