1. July 2013 Elastic Offloading by Dale Denis

2. Dale Denis The Elastic Offloading of Computationally Intensive Tasks to the Cloud to Augment the Computing Capabilities of a Mobile Device.

3. Dale Denis The Environment Samsung ATIV S Windows Phone 8 Dual Core 1.5 GHz processor 1024 MB RAM Amazon’s EC2 M1 Large 2 Cores 7.5 GB RAM

4. Dale Denis The Application

5. Dale Denis Offloading Decision Criteria Elapsed time Maximum battery discharge time Maximum memory utilization

6. Dale Denis Evaluation

7. Dale Denis Evaluation

8. Dale Denis Evaluation

9. Dale Denis Lessons Learned A.Significant gains can be realized through the elastic offloading of computationally intensive operations to the cloud. B.Offloading solutions must consider the unique nature of mobile devices. C. Offloading decision engines must consider: 1.Execution time 2.System resources 3.Monetary costs 4.User preferences