An approach to seamlessly cloudify user-generated content from mobile devices

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School of Science | Master's thesis
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2011

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Tietotekniikan laitos

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Tietokoneverkot

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T-110

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en

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[9] + 49

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Current users own and use many network-connected devices viz. laptop, smartphone, or tablet. The user creates content using the default applications in these devices. One approach is to share and ubiquitously access the contents through a social media or content community. Such an approach will however make the users dependent on these communities or social media; moreover the user may also lose privacy of her content and even ownership of her data depending on the licensing policy of each community. We argue that the contents residing in mobile devices viz. smartphones or tablets should be available from anywhere, without any explicit user activity. That is, a user's content should get cloudified, while still remaining operable with the existing applications. In this thesis we propose to cloudify a user's content in all her mobile devices. We present as a proof of concept, a middleware that allows a user to use the existing applications uniformly, on local as well as remote content, and to also share the contents in a controlled way. The middleware hides all network activity from the user; it also makes the applications almost unaware while operating on a content residing in a remote location. To evaluate our approach in a mobile device context, we also present the efficiency measures of the middleware in terms of latency in content-retrieval, as well as in terms of resource usage viz. power consumption.

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Männistö, Tomi

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Raatikainen, Mikko

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mobile cloud, FUSE, ATOM, vREST, MIST, meta-information, HTTP, XMPP, Maemo, Ubuntu Linux

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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-2020122358348

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