CAREER: Mobile Application Management

职业：移动应用程序管理

• 批准号: 0845349
• 负责人: Jeannie Albrecht
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Williams College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0845349&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Mobile; Application; Management

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).While mobile applications offer users an opportunity for on-the-go Internet connectivity, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining distributed mobile applications introduces new challenges for software developers. Seemingly trivial tasks--such as configuring devices, starting executions, and tracking errors--are complicated by the unique characteristics of mobile environments. Historically, application management frameworks have helped developers cope with the complexities of managing applications; however, no existing frameworks address the challenges presented by mobile networks. To this end, this proposal has the following goals: 1) investigate mechanisms for the delay tolerant control of mobile applications that enable distributed application management despite network disruptions; 2) develop and evaluate algorithms for partially predictable resource scheduling that leverage the predictable patterns of human interaction to fairly arbitrate access to mobile devices in shared testbeds; 3) develop a software toolkit for mobile application management that simplifies application deployment and visualization. The framework will implement a set of unified abstractions that shield developers from the complexities of managing applications on mobile computing devices. The results of the work will benefit a range of students, researchers, and developers by advancing the state-of-the-art for mobile application management and enabling easier access to experimentation on mobile testbeds. By integrating the framework with shared mobile testbeds, undergraduates at small colleges with little prior exposure to systems development, including women and underrepresented groups, will experience the technological richness of large research institutions and gain hands-on experience with developing real distributed systems.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。虽然移动的应用程序为用户提供了移动互联网连接的机会，但部署、监控和维护分布式移动的应用程序为软件开发人员带来了新的挑战。 移动的环境的独特特性使看似微不足道的任务（如配置设备、启动执行和跟踪错误）变得复杂。 从历史上看，应用程序管理框架帮助开发人员科普管理应用程序的复杂性;然而，没有现有的框架解决由移动的网络提出的挑战。 为此，该提议具有以下目标：1）研究用于移动的应用的延迟容忍控制的机制，该机制使得能够在网络中断的情况下进行分布式应用管理; 2）开发和评估用于部分可预测的资源调度的算法，该算法利用人类交互的可预测模式来公平地仲裁对共享测试床中的移动的设备的访问; 3）开发用于移动的应用程序管理的软件工具包，简化应用程序部署和可视化。 该框架将实现一组统一的抽象，使开发人员免受在移动的计算设备上管理应用程序的复杂性的影响。 这项工作的结果将使一系列学生、研究人员和开发人员受益，推进最先进的移动的应用程序管理，并使人们更轻松地在移动的测试平台上进行实验。 通过将该框架与共享的移动的测试平台相结合，小型大学的本科生（包括女性和代表性不足的群体）将体验大型研究机构的技术丰富性，并获得开发真实的分布式系统的实践经验。