SPiCa: A social private cloud computing application framework

Abstract

Mobile devices are capable of acting as smart assistances not only to serve their users but also to collaborate with each other remotely via wireless Internet to accomplish common goals. The latter is achieved by establishing a Social Private Cloud (SPC). SPC is a cluster formed by a scalable group of social network participants using their mobile devices that are capable of providing their resources to accomplish computational tasks. In this paper, we propose a work ow-based SPiCa framework that enables task delegation in SPC. In order to support adaptive task scheduling based on resource availabilities, a resource-aware task scheduling scheme has been proposed and implemented as a proof of concept. The evaluation demonstrates that the framework is capable of dynamically reacting to runtime changes in order to adjust the task delegation process.