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Cyber ForagingIntroduction

Cyber Foraging: Introduction CHAP TER 1 1.1 THE MOTIVATION FOR CYBER FORAGING Mobile applications increasingly pervade our daily lives. Innovation in computing hardware has con- tinually provided mobile users with more computational resources in lighter and smaller form factors, as laptops have replaced personal computers, and are now in turn being replaced by tablets and smart phones. Hardware advances have in turn triggered a deluge of new, mobile software applications; the mobile application market is expected to reach nearly $30 billion by 2013 [Gartner, 2010]. The success of this market is driven by user demand for pervasive access to data and computation. The portability of current mobile devices satisfies this demand by allowing their users to run applications anywhere at any time. Yet, most mobile applications do not run in isolation on the mobile device. Instead, they access data and computational resources in the cloud via wireless networking infrastructure such as cellular base stations and WiFi access points. Wired infrastructure components such as compute servers and data stores provide more computational resources than a mobile device because they are not limited by stringent size, weight, and battery energy constraints. This combination of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure is so compelling that technologists http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2012
ISBN
978-3-031-01353-9
Pages
1 –6
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-02481-8_1
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CHAP TER 1 1.1 THE MOTIVATION FOR CYBER FORAGING Mobile applications increasingly pervade our daily lives. Innovation in computing hardware has con- tinually provided mobile users with more computational resources in lighter and smaller form factors, as laptops have replaced personal computers, and are now in turn being replaced by tablets and smart phones. Hardware advances have in turn triggered a deluge of new, mobile software applications; the mobile application market is expected to reach nearly $30 billion by 2013 [Gartner, 2010]. The success of this market is driven by user demand for pervasive access to data and computation. The portability of current mobile devices satisfies this demand by allowing their users to run applications anywhere at any time. Yet, most mobile applications do not run in isolation on the mobile device. Instead, they access data and computational resources in the cloud via wireless networking infrastructure such as cellular base stations and WiFi access points. Wired infrastructure components such as compute servers and data stores provide more computational resources than a mobile device because they are not limited by stringent size, weight, and battery energy constraints. This combination of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure is so compelling that technologists

Published: Jan 1, 2012

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